Wildcard in Replace Line?

x-77-x

i got…

\\15,30,5
P=2123,52,1

and im trying to make

TIMELO=15
TIMEHIGH=30
MAXDIST=5
P=2123,52,1

and of course all the values are different, 6000 some different instances…

i tried \\.*,.*,.* & \\\d+,\d+,\d+ in the search line, but not sure how to do the replace…
also, i dont want to disrupt the commas in the P= line (so i cant just do a global comma replace)

i could changes that \\ to something else, if its causing a problem

basically im trying to change
\\ to TIMELO=
comma 1 to TIMEHIGH=
comma 2 to MAXDIST=
keeping the values
ONLY on the \\ LINE

any ideas? thanks

Coises

You want:

Find what: ^\\\\(\d++),(\d++),(\d++)$
Replace with: TIMELO=$1\r\nTIMEHIGH=$2\r\nMAXDIST=$3

The caret (^) indicates the beginning of a line, and the dollar ($) in find indicates the end of a line.

The backslashes (\) at the beginning of the line are doubled because backslash is an escape character; you need two to represent one.

The \d indicates a digit; following it with two plus signs (\d++) means as many digits as possible in a row, but at least one.

The parentheses indicate capture groups, which can be referenced in the replacement using $n where n is the number of the capture group, counting from 1.

\r\n is a Windows line ending.

x-77-x

AMAZING!!! thank you Coises!

how do you guys even know this stuff!? =)

Alan Kilborn

@x-77-x said in Wildcard in Replace Line?:

how do you guys even know this stuff!?

Umm, it’s all documented in the User Manual, which is linked to from the ? menu option in Notepad++…

Look under the Searching heading, for Regular Expressions.