thanks sir. god bless you!

@Jack-Moorhead

see here for more information

Worked! Thanks a lot!

Thanks Terry. That’s exactly what I was looking for. Just couldn’t see the Remove Bookmarked Lines option where I looked.

Appreciate the quick response.

Hello @ilya-levadny and All,

Actually, you want to delete all characters located after the second colon character, included, of any line

Indeed, not difficult with regular expressions !

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

SEARCH (?-s)^(.+?:.+?):.+

REPLACE \1

Select the Regular expression search mode

Check, preferably, the Wrap around option

Click, once on the Replace All button or several times on the Replace button

An other formulation would be :

SEACRH (?-s)^.+?:.+?\K:.+

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

This time, due to the \K syntax you must use the Replace All button, exclusively

Notes :

The (?-s) in-line modifier means that dot ( . ) matches any single standard character, only

The .+?: part looks for the shortest non-null range of characters till a colon ( : )

The part between parentheses ( .+?:.+? ) is stored as group 1, which must be rewritten, during the replacement phase

At the end, the .+ syntax represents the rest of the line, after the second colon char, included, of the current line

In the second version, after matching the implicit group 1, the \K syntax resets the regex engine, so the final overall match is the part :.+ which corresponds to the second colon char with all the subsequent chars of current line, which are deleted as the replacement zone is empty

Best Regards,

guy038

welcome to the notepad++ community, @ForceTraps

we would need more information to be eventually of help regarding your request.

specify if by “run” you mean to open a file in notepad++ or to execute it with an external program ?
if it is an external program you want to pass your document to, please name this external program.

what file did you try to run ?
(file location and name including it’s extension, aka “full path”)

please clarify “Is it because i need a specific version”.
what version of what program are you referring to ?

please go to the notepad++ menu ? > debug info... > copy debug info into clipboard and paste the content here, as we will need this information, if some config files will have to be edited for your specific installation.

OK, I’ve found the problem. Instead of:

c:\gnucobol\bin\cobc -x -std=mf $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)

I should have c:\gnucobol3\bin\cobc -x -std=mf $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)
^
Also, since I’ve already defined the PATH variable I can just use:

cobc -x -std=mf $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)
or
cobc -x -std=mf $(FILE_NAME)

Thanks for the suggestions, guys.

Paul

@Pingponguin

I followed the noob path but really did not understand how this should help me with my question.

yes, i can relate completely.
whilst we (as the notepad++ community) do have a vast library of regex examples and guides, it can be difficult to get a first firm grip at regex, without having a few real life examples, one can personally relate to.

also there are some vast differences on how different users reach the same results with almost completely different syntaxes (let’s call them “personal regex dialects”).
for example @Alan-Kilborn 's regex syntax for your request is perfect to begin with, because it is as easy as possible to read and understand.

but if you stick around, you will also see regexes that often do the same and are very difficult to digest.
(i usually still stick to syntaxes i can completely understand and/or are easier to break down to smaller parts)

@PeterJones

it seems as if we all get more and more multilingual lately …

… if it continues like that, @Alan-Kilborn is going to answer every request in swedish only, and @guy038 will do all explanations in a specific japanese dialect, only spoken in a single village, north of gokayama 😂😂😂

@Dennis-Schlüter
yes, @PeterJones is absolutely correct.
as long as you stick to one single encoding (like ansi) and no other software requires anything else (like utf-8), you will be on the safe side.
and it is better to rely on yourself, choosing the file format encoding, than any auto-detection.

note: once you manually changed to ansi, please re-check all vital documents for incorrect characters instead of german umlauts, as wrong characters are likely to exist, once the document has been switched back and forth from one encoding to another.

@PeterJones

最近私たち全員がますます多言語を話すようになります…

…それでもこのように続けば、アランはすべての要求にスウェーデン語で答えることになります、そして男は特定の日本語の方言ですべての説明をするでしょう、gokayamaの北の単一の村で話されるだけです😂😂😂

@Dennis-Schlüter
はい、@PeterJones は正しいです。
（ansiのように）1つのエンコーディングに固執し、他のソフトウェアが（utf-8のように）他に必要としない限り、あなたは安全な側にいるでしょう。
自動検出よりも、ファイル形式のエンコーディングを選択して自分に頼ることをお勧めします。

注：手動でansiに変更した場合は、文書をあるエンコードから別のエンコードに切り替えた後に、誤った文字が存在する可能性があるため、重要な文書すべてにドイツ語のウムラウトではなく誤った文字がないか再確認してください。

😉

Thanks very much.
It worked fine.
I have put
\R(?!(<article>(.+?)</article>))
Then the same method

Best wishes