Creating Line Break when there are multiple spaces on tagged line.

Alan Kilborn

Try:

find: (?-s)^((\\[C2:)\w+)\x20{3}(.+)\\](\R)
repl: ${1}]${4}${2}${3}]${4}
search mode: regular expression

Lycan Thrope

Then you need to better prepare your example texts so someone doesn’t ignore you in exhaustion. Like you, I didn’t know crap about this Regex stuff until I needed to learn here with these good people’s help, but I always gave them exactly what I was using, what I needed and how it should look. This of course, is after I had beat my head silly trying to learn this on my own, so I at least had an inkling of what they were telling me in response…even if I didn’t understand what it was. I suggest you do the same. Learn what you can, then ask questions as you go, but changing the goal posts of what you want from the same piece of text is on you.

Honestly, I’ve been following this forum in the background and now I understand the frustration these folks have gotten to, trying to help people that don’t have an inkling of what it is they really want and expect people to read their intentions, rather than their needs.

Lee

Lycan Thrope

@ashley-hoogenboom

Alan Kilborn

@lycan-thrope said in Creating Line Break when there are multiple spaces on tagged line.:

Then you need to better prepare your example texts

A bit harsh. You don’t know what you aren’t doing right until someone tells you, most times…

The OP seemed very agreeable to read the info I pointed to, and rework the question/data to conform.

Lycan Thrope

@alan-kilborn ,

Perhaps, but I was the recipient of like until I got the system right, too. Mostly my problems stemmed from trying to describe the problem without knowing what the forum’s formatting norms were. It was my bad…and I was called on carpet about it, too, appropriately. :)

Interestingly, my solution should have worked for him, anyway, spaces or not.::shrug::

Lee

Ashley Hoogenboom

@alan-kilborn said in Creating Line Break when there are multiple spaces on tagged line.:

(?-s)^(([C2:)\w+)\x20{3}(.+)](\R)

Thank you! That worked! If you have time can you explain that to me. If not I will be looking it up to make sense of it all.

Alan Kilborn

@ashley-hoogenboom said in Creating Line Break when there are multiple spaces on tagged line.:

If you have time can you explain that to me

(?-s)^(([C2:)\w+)\x20{3}(.+)](\R)

(?-s)^((\[C2:)\w+)\x20{3}(.+)\](\R)

Use these options for the whole regular expression (?-s)
- (hyphen inverts the meaning of the letters that follow) -
- Dot doesn’t match line breaks s
Assert position at the beginning of a line (at beginning of the string or after a line break character) (carriage return and line feed, form feed, next line, line separator, paragraph separator) ^
Match the regex below and capture its match into backreference number 1 ((\[C2:)\w+)
- Match the regex below and capture its match into backreference number 2 (\[C2:)
  - [Match the character “” literally \[
  - Match the character string “C2:” literally (case sensitive) C2:
- Match a single character that is a “word character” (Unicode; any letter or ideograph, digit, letter number, underscore) \w+
  - Between one and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy) +
Match the character “ ” which occupies position 0x20 (32 decimal) in the character set \x20{3}
- Exactly 3 times {3}
Match the regex below and capture its match into backreference number 3 (.+)
- Match any single character that is NOT a line break character (line feed, carriage return, form feed, next line, line separator, paragraph separator) .+
  - Between one and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy) +
[Match the character “]” literally]3 \]
Match the regex below and capture its match into backreference number 4 (\R)
- Match a line break (carriage return and line feed pair, sole line feed, sole carriage return, vertical tab, form feed, next line, line separator, or paragraph separator) \R

${1}]${4}${2}${3}]${4}

Insert the text that was last matched by capturing group number 1 ${1}
[Insert the character “]” literally]4 ]
Insert the text that was last matched by capturing group number 4 ${4}
Insert the text that was last matched by capturing group number 2 ${2}
Insert the text that was last matched by capturing group number 3 ${3}
[Insert the character “]” literally]4 ]
Insert the text that was last matched by capturing group number 4 ${4}

Created with RegexBuddy

Ashley Hoogenboom

@lycan-thrope Thank you for your willingness to try and help me as well. I am new to this site as of last night, and I will be sure to follow the rules and make sure I am giving the correct sample. :-)

Ashley Hoogenboom

@alan-kilborn Amazing! Thank you so much

Lycan Thrope

@ashley-hoogenboom ,
All they can ask. I feel for these guys that do this day in and day out. You were my first attempt, and I was kind of angry when you changed the goal. :) That said, welcome to the NPP forum, community and ask away. The only stupid question, is the one not asked. :)

Lee