How to replace multiple words?

[Bahaa0013]

Is there a way to replace multiple words with multiple values at the same time?
I mean like translating.
example text:
“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.”

What I want to replace:
(this: that)
amet: friend
Lorem: human
elit: fruit

Output:
“human ipsum dolor sit friend, consectetur adipiscing fruit.”

So is there any regex commands to do that?

If this future is available in notepad++ it will help so much to edit huge txt file, Instead of replacing one by one…

[Alan Kilborn]

@Bahaa-Eddin-ツ

You’re talking about a “replace from list” capability.
It doesn’t exist unless scripting is used.
Try searching this forum for “replace from list”.

[PeterJones]

@Bahaa-Eddin-ツ ,

Also, since I couldn’t find my post when I used @Alan-Kilborn’s search term, I will mention I wrote a “translation bot” script, where you put in a group of pairs in the script, then run the script, and it “translates” it. The example is English -> Some Other Language. But the same logic works for English1 -> English2 or Lorem Ipsum to English or whatever.

[Bahaa0013]

@Alan-Kilborn
@PeterJones

Thanks, I found what I want:

Find: (Lorem)|(amet)|(elit)
Replace: (?1human)(?2friend)(?3fruit)

[PeterJones]

@Bahaa-Eddin-ツ ,

That will definitely work for a short list of changes.

If that’s sufficient for you, that’s great. Alan and I tend to answer assuming that the real requirements is to have a longer list than the example (which wouldn’t be practical in the alternation regex like you showed).

[Bahaa0013]

@PeterJones said in How to replace multiple words?:

That will definitely work for a short list of changes.
If that’s sufficient for you, that’s great. Alan and I tend to answer assuming that the real requirements is to have a longer list than the example (which wouldn’t be practical in the alternation regex like you showed).

I think it works perfectly with long list of words too : ), But it needs some time to add +120 word, and then I have to add again 120 word to replace with…

I’m new in notepad++, That’s why I chose the easy method :>

[PeterJones]

@Bahaa-Eddin-ツ ,

The Find what field is character-limited to 2047 characters, so 200 words at 8 characters per word plus the three characters for ( and ) and | means 2200 characters, which will not fit.

But if you ever really do go to that many long words, then you have the option to switch to a scripting language as suggested above, or break it into a couple of ~2000-character expressions rather than one >2000-character expression.

But personally, if the regex is more than ~100 words, I would question my own sanity in using it, because it would be easier for me to put the 100 pairs in a readable form like the TranslationBot script than to build up a regex that long and hope I didn’t make a mistake in creating the find and replace expressions – off-by-one could be killer in that situation!

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edit: changed from 1000 (bad memory) to 2047 (actual threshold); add third paragraph

[Alan Kilborn]

Find: (Lorem)|(amet)|(elit)
Replace: (?1human)(?2friend)(?3fruit)

Really, if you’re going to go “long” with that syntax, you could have a script do it – create the syntax for you. But…if you’re making the scripting leap, maybe it is best to go “all the way”.