From the @pellelin’s post, here is an improvement of my previous post : I now added the complete path of each file , followed with a \ character and the file name !

Once any Search Results panel is displayed :

• Hit the Ctrl + A shortcut

• Hit the Ctrl + C shortcut

• Open a new tab ( Ctrl + N )

• Paste the Search Results contents in this new tab ( Ctrl + V )

• Run the option Edit > Line operations > Reverse line order ( IMPORTANT )

• Now, open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

• Uncheck all box options

  • FIND (?-si)^\tLine\x20+(\d+)(?=(?s:.+?)^\x20\x20(\u:.*\\.+)(?=\x20\())|^\x20\x20\u.+\R

  • REPLACE ?2\2\t\1\t

• Check the Wrap around option

• Select the Regular expression search mode

• Click on the Replace All button

• Now, re-run the Edit > Line operations > Reverse line order option ( IMPORTANT )

• Finally, save this new tab for future study within N++ or Excel !

Now, @pellelin, if you don’t have already the Columns++ plugin installed in your configuration, I kindly advice you to install it !

• After installation of this plugin, close and re-open Notepad++

• First, run the Plugins > Columns++ > Elastic tabstops option

• Then run the Plugins > Columns++ > Convert tabs to spaces option

• Now, in order to right-aligned the line numbers, do the following regex replacement :

  • FIND (\d+)(\x20*)(?=\x20:\x20)

  • REPLACE \2\1

With the same parameters, in the Replace dialog, than above !

For example, I did a search of the word the, whatever its case, in Normal mode, on any .txt file of an USB key

Search "the" (77312 hits in 507 files of 590 searched) [Normal]

I got an INPUT file of 51,5544 lines for about 10,2 Mb

And, after the above process :

• Reverse line order

• Regex Replacement

• Reverse line order

Which took 82s, I got an OUTPUT file of 51,047 lines, for about 12,2 Mb, with Complete file path, Line number and Text, all aligned

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

In this version, I didn’t report the number of hits. If this information matters too, just ask me about it !