Find and replace across multiple rows

Ricardo Gonzalez

All, I’m extremely new to Notepad++. I’m working on a project for work and am faced with the following issue:

Is there a way for me to combine the first two lines of each item?

I want to convert:
<RECORD>
<RECORD-id>1</RECORD-id>

To:
<RECORD id=“1”>

And have that apply to all my records in the file. Thanks so much in advance.

Coises

I want to convert:
<RECORD>
<RECORD-id>1</RECORD-id>

To:
<RECORD id=“1”>

That’s a fairly simple job for regular expression search, so long as the format and order stays just as you’ve indicated.

From the main menu, select Search | Replace… and fill in:

Find what: ^\s*<RECORD>\s*\R\s*<RECORD-id>(\d+)</RECORD-id>\s*$

Replace with: <RECORD id="$1">

Be sure the radio button Regular expression is selected and use the Replace All button.

Ricardo Gonzalez

That worked like a charm. Saved me hours worth of work. Thanks so much, I REALLY appreciate it.