<![CDATA[Is it possible to use regex to achieve this?]]>Hello everyone, I sometimes use Notepad++ but I know very little about regex function, so I’m looking for some help with it.

Here’s a brief description of my problem:

  1. Got some time-series data files that contain missing-data during a certain period, so I want to replace each missing value with the one from the same date of the previous year.

  2. There are a little more than 100 files. the missing-data in every file is from line 488 to 548. The missing-data are all in the same form as “-9.99e+08”, the remaining lines are all numbers.

  3. So I wonder if it is possible to perform this kind of replacing with regex: replace line 488 with the value in line 123, line 489 with line 124, and so on, until line 548 with line 183, while the remaining lines stay as they were.

Technially I can do this replacement manually, but obviously using regex function is waaaay better (if it’s possible, of course). So if it is possible, could anyone please kindly show me how?

Please kindly let me know in case more information about the data was needed.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/22683/is-it-possible-to-use-regex-to-achieve-thisRSS for NodeTue, 14 Apr 2026 06:12:11 GMTMon, 07 Mar 2022 08:42:09 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:05:09 GMT]]>@guy038 said:

\A … works properly ONLY SINCE the 7.9.1 N++ release

Thanks, good to know. (I probably skimmed that factoid in the past but it wouldn’t have made an impression on me since I’m a novice user of \A.)

Refer also at the end of this topic

Those posts don’t say how \A behavior changed, and I’m not inclined to chase down and crawl through the Boost doc versions or developer issue discussions and commit comments to find out! If you happen to know, maybe share a sentence or two about how it behaved prior to 7.9.1, or link to something (brief!) where one can get a user-level idea of it.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75041https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75041Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:05:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:29:30 GMT]]>Hi, @moking-c, @neil-schipper, @lycan-thrope and All,

The \A regex assertion, which anchors any further regex to the very beginning of a file, was improved and works properly ONLY SINCE the 7.9.1 N++ release !

Refer also at the end of this topic

Best Regards,

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75040https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75040Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:29:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Wed, 09 Mar 2022 08:30:24 GMT]]>@moking-c
Well, you could do a search on your computer for files starting with the name npp or such, and see if it comes up. Simple Windows search may find the original install file.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75015https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75015Wed, 09 Mar 2022 08:30:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Wed, 09 Mar 2022 07:32:18 GMT]]>@neil-schipper sorry but I didn’t check the previous version before I updated it, so unless it’s possible to check it now I don’t know what it was, although I know I haven’t updated for quite a while, half a year at least, maybe even longer. And thanks for the suggestions, I will have a look!

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75014https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75014Wed, 09 Mar 2022 07:32:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Wed, 09 Mar 2022 06:36:31 GMT]]>@moking-c said:

the problem disappeared after I updated my N++

Good to hear. Do you know what the old version was? There have been changes over the years to npp’s regex component (based on seeing other discussions) but I’m not knowledgeable about which would pertain to this situation.

I wanted to mention that the data transformation this problem needed could have been solved (on a single file) without any F&R, regex or otherwise. A macro could have done the job. If you’ve never recorded and run macros, it’s a good skill to have. In this case, only normal cursor movement, text selection (shift-arrow) and copy/paste are needed, and, since goto line (ctl-g) is supported inside a macro, the solution is quite elegant. However, this approach would not have offered the ability to process many files in one super-process, so in this case it would have been far less desirable.

I also wish to draw your attention to the Donate link on the notepad-plus-plus.org main page. Presently, the link goes to a page with info on organizations working to provide assistance to distressed people in Ukraine.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75012https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75012Wed, 09 Mar 2022 06:36:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Wed, 09 Mar 2022 05:46:56 GMT]]>@neil-schipper hi, thank you for your reply. I was using the second expression all along but the problem kept happening. I wondered a possible reason and as it turned out: the problem disappeared after I updated my N++ to the newest version. Don’t know what possibly triggered the problem but I’m glad now it’s fine. So problem solved, thank you guys :)

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75011https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75011Wed, 09 Mar 2022 05:46:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Wed, 09 Mar 2022 05:22:24 GMT]]>@moking-c

I could recreate your problem using Find expression:

(?:.*\R){122}\K((?:.+\R){61})((?:.+\R){304})(?:.+\R){61}

which is not the expression we suggested to you. I find that when using the expression we suggested:

(?-s)\A(?:.*\R){122}\K((?:.+\R){61})((?:.+\R){304})(?:.+\R){61}

the problem is not present.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75010https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/75010Wed, 09 Mar 2022 05:22:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Wed, 09 Mar 2022 03:33:03 GMT]]>@neil-schipper @guy038 Hi I’m back, I have tested with the solution guy038 proposed, and it worked as I wanted for line 488 to 548, which means every value from May-1-1977 to June-30-1977 is replaced by value of the same day from the previous year.

However there is a new problem, for some reason, 487 lines after the 548th line (namely from line 1036), another replacement happened for another consecutive 61-days, then another 487 lines after that the same thing, then again and agian until the end of the file. I tried with different files but the problem stays the same.

Here is the first 1650 lines of one file (8036 lines in total):

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  1. Since the need is to copy and replace complete lines, the actual text on the lines is not relevant to the solution.

  2. The 81 was an arithmetic error, which @guy038 detected and fixed.

So the next thing you should do is apply the regex in Guy’s last post, check the result and report back to us.

If there are problems and you want to provide text, paste it into a reply as described in the FAQ I linked. There is no file attach mechanism.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74991https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74991Tue, 08 Mar 2022 05:51:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Tue, 08 Mar 2022 04:05:15 GMT]]>@neil-schipper thank you very much for you replies. Sorry that I am not familiar with that “code” function, I wanted to attach a file but couldn’t find an option. Like I said to guy038 I will show you the data when I get back to work tomorrow.

To answer your two questions, yes and yes. Although that “81” part confuses me a little, but I guess it would make things clearer for both of us when I show you the data later. For now, allow me to explain a little more:

the first line in every file is the starting date of the time-series data, then one line for one day for a 22 years. It starts from Jan 1st, 1976, and the missing data is from May 1st, 1977 to June 30, 1977. So I want to replace each day during these two months from the one of 1976 (it’s meteorological data, so this is one easy and reasonable solution). It looks like this:

19760101
0.1234
0.23456
0.12345
0.5678
…

Anyway, sorry that i couldn’t show you the real data now, I will @ you again with it tomorrow. Thank you for your help and patience.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74990https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74990Tue, 08 Mar 2022 04:05:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Tue, 08 Mar 2022 03:54:04 GMT]]>@guy038 thank you very much for trying to help. My data is not confidential so I will show you later (it’s on another computer in my office but today is my day-off).

Don’t know this changes anything but my data contains decimal point, like 0.12345. Terribly sorry for not being able to show the real data to you now, I will @ you again when i get back to work tomorrow. Thank you again.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74989https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74989Tue, 08 Mar 2022 03:54:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:58:49 GMT]]>@guy038:

Neil, test it against the text below

Do you really want a guy who was fairly certain that 548-488+1 = 81 to be the one to double check that which you’ve already tested?

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74975https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74975Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:58:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:13:41 GMT]]>Hi, @moking-c, @neil-schipper and All,

My previous solution works fine for a single file but cannot be used with the Find in Files dialog because of the use of the Edit > Line Operations > Reverse Line Order feature !

So, using the @neil-schipper’s method, I arrive at the following solution :

SEARCH (?-s)\A(?:.*\R){122}\K((?:.+\R){61})((?:.+\R){304})(?:.+\R){61}

REPLACE \1\2\1

Neil, test it against the text below :

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guy038

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74965https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74965Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:13:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Mon, 07 Mar 2022 12:13:09 GMT]]>@guy038: Hi. I saw your solution come up when I was just about done mine but I haven’t made sense of it yet.

@moking-c:

When asking for data transformation help it’s best that you supply sample text, preferably in a Literal Text Block (by surrounding with lines containing three backquotes) as explained here.

For your problem, you should show both the before and the after text. Probably you should first make an artificially shortened version of your problem that contains perhaps 10-20 lines.

That said…

Is it correct that the lines being copied are always from the same file where the lines are copied to?

Is it correct that you wish to do line replacement, and not insertion?

If answers to both the above are yes, I have a tested regex that picks up the 3 lines 3-5, and replaces lines 8-10 with the picked up lines. Thus, it converts this:

1
21
335
4245
52345
624515
7124515
81241515
912341515
1035612455
32356124556
323561245578
3235612455053

to this:

1
21
335
4245
52345
624515
7124515
335
4245
52345
32356124556
323561245578
3235612455053

Here it is:

F: \A(?:^.*\R){2}\K((?:^.*\R){3})((?:^.*\R){2})((?:^.*\R){3})
R: $1$2$1

To customize for your need, you only need be concerned with the four numbers in {}.

The first is the number of initial lines to skip over. For you, 122.

The second and fourth are the number of lines to pick up and replace. They must be the same. For you, it’s 80 or 81, I’m not sure. I’ll use 81.

The 3rd is number of lines to skip after the picked up segment, so 488-(122+81) = 285.

This suggests:

F: \A(?:^.*\R){122}\K((?:^.*\R){81})((?:^.*\R){285})((?:^.*\R){81})

Trust nothing. Verify everything.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74962https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74962Mon, 07 Mar 2022 12:13:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is it possible to use regex to achieve this? on Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:14:00 GMT]]>Hello, @moking-c and All,

Yes, I think that a regex solution is possible;-)) If not confidential, could you provide the exact text of one of your files between lines, let’s say, 100 to 500 ?

To this purpose, select your text ( Ctrl + C ) and, when replying, click on the button below and paste all your text (Ctrl + V ) instead of the code_text indication shown !

2cebdc75-8b9a-438a-a415-25d2e7c71c50-Capture d’écran 2022-03-07 123711.png !

My general idea is :

  • Locate the line 548 with a visual indication

  • Temporarily reverse the lines order of your file

  • Go to this line 548

  • Perform 61 times this kind of regex S/R :

    • SEARCH (?-s)^.+\R(?=(.*\R){365}(.+))

    • REPLACE \1

  • Restore the initial line order

See you later !

guy038

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74961https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/74961Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:14:00 GMT