I made some silly mistakes (several syntax errors) in the AWK script above. Also, the additional code in the END block won’t print the total number of times each prefix appeared as I intended. This script does, however:

{ split($0, Parts, /:/) # Parts[1] <- text before the ":". if (!(Parts[1] in Prefixes)) { # If we've NOT seen this prefix ... print Parts[1] # ... print it. } Prefixes[Parts[1]]++ # Count this prefix. } END { for (p in Prefixes) { # Print # of times we saw each one. printf("Prefix '%s' appeared %d times.\n", p, Prefixes[p]) } }

@Terry-R said in search something and replace it with the file name of the file at hand:

@Christos-Glavopoulos-adjuster-GR

With a test file open in Notepad++ complete the following:

Menu option Macro, then Start Recording. Ctrl + Home key. This places the cursor at the very start of the file. Use the Find function with the string/regex (see Note-1 below) to find the string. Click on Find Next, then click Close. So at this point the string you are searching for should be highlighted. Menu option Edit, then select Copy to Clipboard. At this point you need to identify which sub-option you want. It will most likely be “Copy Current Filename”, but you may want the first option “Copy Current Full File Path” which includes the path with the filename. Ctrl + V. Paste the clipboard content to the current cursor position. Ctrl + S then Ctrl + W. Save current file and then close current file. Menu option Macro, then Stop Recording.

I have tried your solution @Terry-R and it worked like a charm.

Many many Thanks

Christos

@TwiceCake said in Data corrupt after upgrade to 8.6.9:

I have important notes.
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The content is all disappear.
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Does anyone encounter same problem too?

Yes, a key common element is people who fail to back up or make copies of their important notes.

Take a look at FAQ: Periodic Backup vs AutoSave as it’s possible you had already enabled one of the backup mechanism that are available for Notepad++.

logi-tech said:

What If I wanted to search for a specific number for example : 3XXXXX5849

This user has asked the same question three times in three different threads. At this point, I’m pretty sure they’re a bot fishing for upvotes.

We should stop dignifying them with replies until they prove they’re human.

@logi-tech
Use the Find/replace form (Search->Find... from the main menu).
Find what: 3[0-9]{5}5849
Search Mode: Regular Expression

Here’s a useful reference on the regular expression I wrote. You could also use 3\d{5}5849 for the same effect.

@Ekopalypse said in Notepad++ for. Android:

@Arthur-Verburg

Is there any way to have notepad++ working in android?

No, because Npp relies on the Windows API.

If not so is there something like it?

I don’t know.

Thank you

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/15465

Had the same issue… was creating a new cmd file, edit, and then the first line would just clear one pressing Enter, removed the scintilla commands for enter and tab and seems to work fine. Issue came out of the sudden, last intervention I did was adding autohotkey support. Thanks, A Former User!

On a 2nd note, it introduced a new bug, new line is now not CRLF but CR only regardless of the settings. So I’ve removed the shortcut entries for the scintilla on the changes made prior, all are default now, but that batch enter bug will eventually return.

@x-RushRix

It works for me.
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What theme are you using? What is your Settings > Style Configurator > Language: Global Styles > Style: Selected text colour setting (the one I showed in the screenshot)

If you are using multiple selections at the same time, then what’s your Style: Multi-selected text colour setting, as shown here:
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It may be that your theme is out of date, and missing some of the newer styles (like the Multi-selected text colour). If you are missing any of the entries in the Style: column as compared to my Style Configurator screenshots, you will want to follow the instructions that I give to Bas de Reuver in this post in the “No text on selected line” discussion.

Also, there are known issues with the plugins CSV Lint and Compare Plus – and others may have a similar problem as well – as was discussed in the full “No text on selected line” discussion: in the screenshots in the first post there, you can see that the selection actually caused the text to be hidden, even though the Style Configurator had values for a normal selection. That’s one of the reasons I asked for your ? > Debug Info – so that we could see if you are using one of the known-problematic plugins; unfortunately, you chose to not answer that question. If you don’t have “CSV Lint” or “Compare Plus” plugins, you might want to follow the steps in this FAQ to narrow down which plugin might be the culprit.

@Michael-Madison said in Replacing A unique ID value with another based on a reference table in multiple text files:

I am sure this has been covered, in one way or another, but the searches come up with very code heavy solution that leave me clueless, and I have zero idea what i am doing.

Unfortunately, the problem you described is best dealt with using either code or a data management tool. Notepad++ is a text editor. While you can use Notepad++'s search/replace to do some crude data management tasks you end up with stuff that is both hard to create and harder to maintain.

I’ll use the idea proposed by @Mark-Olson and show this example. Let’s say we have a list of ten 6-digit WELL numbers and their corresponding 14-digit numbers.

729647 01816277784739 832291 05203379882010 323016 08529698086864 852429 25301745193483 613474 43535571764114 421123 69712418942707 495790 62415119153289 901250 16906577703160 214509 29859837478695 936045 11344788176363

A search/replace on multiple files of:
Search: (?-i)(?<=^WELL,")(?:(729647)|(832291)|(323016)|(852429)|(613474)|(421123)|(495790)|(901250)|(214509)|(936045))(?="$)
Replace: (?1(01816277784739))(?2(05203379882010))(?3(08529698086864))(?4(25301745193483))(?5(43535571764114))(?6(69712418942707))(?7(62415119153289))(?8(16906577703160))(?9(29859837478695))(?10(11344788176363))

will translate files containing

WELL,"729647" WELL,"832291" WELL,"323016" WELL,"852429" WELL,"613474" WELL,"421123" WELL,"495790" WELL,"901250" WELL,"214509" WELL,"936045"

into files containing

WELL,"01816277784739" WELL,"05203379882010" WELL,"08529698086864" WELL,"25301745193483" WELL,"43535571764114" WELL,"69712418942707" WELL,"62415119153289" WELL,"16906577703160" WELL,"29859837478695" WELL,"11344788176363"

You can expand that search/replace to deal with 20, maybe 30, translations at a time. The issue is that there’s a 1000 to 2000 character limit how long search/replace expressions can be. My example works for dealing with ten values at a time. I did not push the concept to see what the limit is. You said you had thousands of values meaning you would need to construct dozens, and possibly hundreds, of search/replace operations and to run them on all the data files.

This is an area where code shines vs dealing with it in Notepad++ alone as code can easily deal with translating a value such as 421123 into the desired 69712418942707. You run that on all your files and you will have the 14-digit WELL values.

@PeterJones said in Searching youtube:

Thanks. I feel sure I did that variation yesterday. Anyway, it now works (again).

You can create a macro and assign it a shortcut. If going for the script path, using PythonScript would be:

notepad.menuCommand( MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_DOS_866 )

But then it will be executed for every opened file, unless you code some conditionals, that’s why I would prefer the macro.

Hello, @asapRepsnp, @coises, @terry-r and All,

I think that an elegant solution would be to use the generic regex, exposed in this post :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/22690/generic-regex-replacing-in-a-specific-zone-of-text/1?lang=fr

Note that, to take in account the two types of your INPUT text, I used this leading regex part :

(?-is:^Message-ID:(?:|\R)\x20<.{4}

With the non-capturing alternative (?:|\R) which means : nothing or a line-break, between the colon char after Message-ID and the space char before the < character !

So :

Open your file in Notpead++

Move the caret ( cursor ) :

At the very beginning of your file ( Ctrl + Home )

On a line, or the first line, beginning with Message-ID

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

Uncheck the Wrap around box option

Then, with this complete regex S/R, below :

SEARCH (?-is:^Message-ID:(?:|\R)\x20<.{4}|(?!\A)\G).*?\K.(?=.*.{4}@)

REPLACE _

The INPUT example text, below :

Message-ID: <S3HC1075.C9B9D2W4@...> Message-ID: <F2CA98A6AWK-LDLL2WQVUFZWSA-8N4-O2WAX-DHGJ2@x> Message-ID: <20230112021536.D44C04F585AAECBA@...> Message-ID: <CAAGbbBVLx-B8sc2ifvzrHEUHTYEvSxkK5=OcDWxk=UKM3eMo2g@...> Message-ID: <347545688.95523.1695404577920.JavySail.boot@...> Message-ID: <S3HC1075.C9B9D2W4@...> Message-ID: <F2CA98A6AWK-LDLL2WQVUFZWSA-8N4-O2WAX-DHGJ2@x> Message-ID: <20230112021536.D44C04F585AAECBA@...> Message-ID: <CAAGbbBVLx-B8sc2ifvzrHEUHTYEvSxkK5=OcDWxk=UKM3eMo2g@...> Message-ID: <347545688.95523.1695404577920.JavySail.boot@...> Message-ID: <B7B207D39A1D4104860D8073A027CCD51DACD65B146E@...> Message-ID: <286f14f5-bb9d-4c26-ae24-2d4ae7484bb3@...>

Is automatically changed as the following OUTPUT text :

Message-ID: <S3HC_________D2W4@...> Message-ID: <F2CA__________________________________HGJ2@x> Message-ID: <2023_______________________ECBA@...> Message-ID: <CAAG___________________________________________Mo2g@...> Message-ID: <3475___________________________________boot@...> Message-ID: <S3HC_________D2W4@...> Message-ID: <F2CA__________________________________HGJ2@x> Message-ID: <2023_______________________ECBA@...> Message-ID: <CAAG___________________________________________Mo2g@...> Message-ID: <3475___________________________________boot@...> Message-ID: <B7B2____________________________________146E@...> Message-ID: <286f____________________________4bb3@...>

Using the free-spacing mode, with the leading (?x) modifier, your search regex would become :

SEARCH (?x) (?-is: ^ Message-ID : (?: | \R) \x20 < .{4} | (?! \A) \G) .*? \K . (?= .* .{4} @)

For identical replacements, of course !

Best Regards,

guy038

@Нело-Анджело ,

I guess I’m not sure what you’re asking for. In Lua Script v0.12, which is the active version, and has been for quite some time, the Plugins > LuaScript menu already has an Execute Current File command that works.

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You can even use the Settings > Preferences > Shortcut Mapper > Plugins to assign a keyboard shortcut to that command, so that you can run it while you are editing the .lua script without using a menu.

Since you brought up the “console”, are you saying you want a button in the console panel, which also runs the current command? As far as I know, there isn’t a way to do that. If you would like to make a feature request for that, that plugin has an issue tracker where you can make feature requests.

@PeterJones
Hi peterjones,
you understood me perfectly. I saw that there is also AutoclipX but haven’t tested it yet. and it’s general to Windows not specific to Notepad++.
anyway,
thanks again peterjones.

@L1N3R1D3R said in .yaml files are turning into .yml files when using "Save (a Copy) As...":

You instead have to untick “Append extension” and then manually add the .yaml extension,

… or you can just type the .yaml extension without unchecking that box. If there is an extension typed, “append extension” does not append a second extension.

I’m confused why Notepad++ would automatically change the file extension of the copy

It doesn’t change the extension; when you do a Save As (or Save A Copy As), it’s creating a new file, and you aren’t “changing” the name (so it’s not “changing” the extension) – it’s giving it a brand new, first time name. For all new files of a given filetype, Notepad++ assumes that the first extension in the list – in this case .yml, is the one for automatic extension. The same is true for any language that has multiple extensions.

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But, as I said, all you have to do to override that default is to type your own extension, and Notepad++ will use it.

And if you want to change things so that your copy of Notepad++ always uses .yaml as the default for YAML files, instead of .yml, you can close all instances of Notepad++, edit %AppData%\Notepad++\langs.xml, change <Language name="yaml" ext="yml yaml" ... to <Language name="yaml" ext="yaml ymml" ..., save and exit, then restart Notepad++ – from then on, .yaml will come before .yml in the Save/SaveAs dialog for YAML files, and that will be the default extension for you.

Hello,

thank you for both answers !!

But in the meantime I could solve my little problem myself …

In case someone is interested, I will give a little description of how I did it:

1.) Identify the location by a unique character (or series of those)
2.) replace tab: “unique character as above” \n \n xyz
3.) highlight the “xyz” with a bookmark
4.) replace the bookmarked “xyz” with the clipboard

Regards,
Rowlfi

@jacobacci said in Copying content from allmusic:

I cannot post links yet. If you do a google search for ‘allmusic brahms symphony 1’ the correct page will be the first search result.

I assume you mean https://www.allmusic.com/composition/symphony-no-1-in-c-minor-op-68-mc0002366601#partsMovements – it took me a bit to find that the text you were quoting was in a hidden section of the page.

Then I would like to add sequential number, hyphens and spaces to the beginning of the lines:

- 1. Un poco sostenuto - Allegro - 2. Andante sostenuto - 3. Un poco allegretto e grazioso - 4. Finale. Adagio - Più andante - Allegro non troppo, ma con brio

Notepad++'s search/replace doesn’t have a counter. For something as short as the movements in a piece of music, you could just use a Column Mode selection and then Edit > Column Editor (Alt+C) to insert the numbering. (Column Mode selection could either be activated by clicking before the U of the first line and then Alt+Shift+Clicking before the F on the last line; or you could put the typing caret/cursor before the U, then Edit > Begin/End Select in Column Mode (Alt+Shift+B), then move caret/cursor before the F and use the same menu command or shortcut to end it. Actually, I’d probably suggest doing that Column Mode selection, type - . to get the punctuation inserted; then do another Column Mode selection between the space and the . and then use Column Editor to insert the numbers.

Alternatively, use either the Columns++ or MultiReplace plugins, which have their own extended regex syntax which allows mathematical replacement

The Columns++ Plugin-based idea is described in the Columns++ “REPLACE WITH A SIMPLE COUNTER” example – so you could use something like:
FIND = ^
REPLACE = - (?=match).
in the Columns++ Search/Replace feature The MultiReplace plugin-based idea is to use the CNT special-variable described in the Variables Overview , so it would be something like
FIND = ^
REPLACE = set("- "..CNT..".")
in the Columns++ Search/Replace feature

(Note: I have neither plugin, so I haven’t tried those exact replacements, but it should be something similar to what I’ve shown. Since the owners of both those plugins are often here, they will probably chime in to correct me if I’ve mis-described their replacement syntax)

Finally I would like to paste the work name to the beginning of each line

Do another column selection before the - on the lines above, then when you paste in Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 , it will put that same text before all the lines.

Actually, this could be done at the same time as the column-mode - . above, so the simplified sequence would be

Paste the list of movements Column Mode selection Paste the “work name” Type - . Second Column Mode Use Column Editor for numbering.

Or, if you are using one of the two plugins

Paste the list of movements Use plugin search/replace, where you paste the title when defining your REPLACE WITH string, use something like: Columns++ = PASTEDTITLE - (?=match). MultiReplace = set("PASTEDTITLE - "..CNT..".")

Could this process be automated, so I can simply do two copy / pastes ?

“simply” – maybe not by your definition of the word. But that’s about as simple as I could do it

@Mark-Olson
Wasn’t aware of the plugin. Thanks for letting me know. Got it installed and configured now.

Thanks!

@Coises ,

Fixed. In the future, you could just chat-message the FAQ author (in this case, me).