@PeterJones
Hi Peter…

1. (?-s)^nid (".“)\r\nnstr “”* didn’t work for me, so i tried it bit by bit and this > (?-s)^nid (".”)\nnstr “”* worked much better.

Notepad++ is a Windows text editor, so assuming Windows line endings is natural, and works for the majority of the people; if you had mentioned that you were using Linux line endings, I would have customized the expression for your actual data.

2. That instruction… "initial = 1, increase = ``, leading = none… the increase part didn’t work for me either, the box didn’t allow me to add those characters,

That was a typo on my part. It should have said “increase = 1” – I just missed the 1 in between the ` characters for trying to make the 1 red like 1 .

3. And that \bnstr \b didn’t work too, so i removed the last \b then i was back on track. :)

There was no space between the str and the \b in my example. In my testing, I literally used \bnstr\b and it worked. If you used \bnstr \b, it would not work, because the next character after the space is a " , and between the space and the quote mark is not a word-boundary.

But i had some other problems with the file to deal with first, …

Glad you figured it out.

A huge thank you to a very well done job, i cannot thank you enough. Your instructions worked like a charm with some minor tweaks on the regex you gave me…

1. (?-s)^nid (".“)\r\nnstr “”* didn’t work for me, so i tried it bit by bit and this > (?-s)^nid (".”)\nnstr “”* worked much better.
2. That instruction… "initial = 1, increase = ``, leading = none… the increase part didn’t work for me either, the box didn’t allow me to add those characters, so when i tried without i only got 1’s all the way down… that didn’t work so the most logic for me was to give increase the value of 1, then it worked.
3. And that \bnstr \b didn’t work too, so i removed the last \b then i was back on track. :)

I was slightly curious about how the end would look like, but there was no problems at all… everything went smooth as butter… :)

But i had some other problems with the file to deal with first, after copying some rows in the beginning i noticed the english was messed up, where 450 rows were not inside the quotation marks… like this…

nid “”
“Are you sure”
“you want to clear the reportings”
nstr “”

nid “”
“Are you sure”
“you want to clean”
“up duplicates”
nstr “”

nid “”
“Are you sure”
“you want to "clear”\ or "save"
“expired items”
nstr “”

nid “”
“Are you sure”
“you want to”
“clear offensive”
“items”
nstr “”

so i needed to take care that first… removing all the extra quotation marks… when i did that i noticed half way in the file im editing everything wrong… you see i removed all the quotation marks, even those inside sentences ("%s" and target="_blank")… which is bad… so i had to start all over again… it was the first step of 4 instead of 3.

Ja, ja… as we say here… “When head is stupid, body will suffer” (hence the unnecessary extra job)… :/

A huge thx again Peter… :)

Make a backup of your data in case something goes wrong.

1. duplicate string contents
   • FIND WHAT = (?-s)^nid (".*")\r\nnstr ""
     REPLACE WITH = nid $1\r\nnstr $1
     SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression
   • REPLACE ALL
2. Number the lines:
   • Ctrl+Home
   • Edit > Begin/End Select in Column Mode
   • Ctrl+End
   • If you aren’t at the end of a line, hit ENTER to create a new blank line at the end of the document
   • Edit > Begin/End Select in Column Mode to finish the column selection – you should have a tall, super-thin rectangle selected
   • Type a space character to indent by one
   • Down Arrow to leave column-selection, then left arrow to get to the left edge of the last line
   • Edit > Begin/End Select in Column Mode
   • Ctrl+Home
   • Edit > Begin/End Select in Column Mode to end selection, again giving a zero-width but tall selection
   • Alt+C (or Edit > Column Editor) to pop up the Column Editor dialog.
   • Insert number, initial = 1, increase = ``, leading = None
   • the file should be numbered, with one or more spaces to the right of each number (depending on the number of digits)
3. Bookmark and cut the nstr lines
   • Ctrl+M (Search > Mark)
   • FIND WHAT = \bnstr\b (the \b make sure that nstr will be a whole word, not part of some other word)
     ☑ BOOKMARK LINE
     MARK ALL
   • There should now be a dot on each line with nstr highlighted
     
   • Search > Bookmark > Cut Bookmarked Lines
4. Put the nstr lines in a new doc
   • Ctrl+N
   • Ctrl+V
5. Outside of Notepad++: Translate that new document (making sure they are still numbered; spaces don’t matter, as long as there’s at least one space after the number)
6. Copy the translated lines
7. Paste at the end of your original document (which currently just has numbered nid lines)
8. Edit > Line Operations > Sort Lines as Integers Ascending
9. remove the line numbering
   • FIND WHAT = ^\d+\h+
     REPLACE WITH = delete the field, so you will replace with empty string
     SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression
     REPLACE ALL