Hi, D visser,

Oh ! you’re right ! Although it was correctly written in the Notes section, the general regex should be :

(?-s)^.*Your Character|String|Range of Words|Regex expression.*\R ( and NOT (?s)..... ! )

So, I updated my previous post !

Below, here are the FOUR search regex, to enter in the Find what zone, in order to delete :

A) All lines containing the string MEX, in that EXACT case

(?-is)^.*MEX.*\R

B) All lines containing the string MEX, WHATEVER its case

(?i-s)^.*MEX.*\R

C) All lines containing the word MEX, in that EXACT case

(?-is)^.*\bMEX\b.*\R

D) All lines containing the word MEX, WHATEVER its case

(?i-s)^.*\bMEX\b.*\R

Notes :

Remember that the Replace with: zone must be EMPTY !

The \b assertions represents, either, the zero-length limit, between :

( A non-word character OR the very beginning of a file ) AND a word character

A word character AND ( a non-word character OR the very end of a file )

The in-line modifier (?-i) forces the search, in a NON-insensitive way

The in-line modifier (?i) forces the search, in a insensitive way

So, suppose the original text, of four lines :

Line 1 : Example ofMEX text Line 2 : Example ofmeX text Line 3 : Example of MEX text Line 4 : Example of MEx text

Then :

The regex A) would delete the lines 1 and 3

The regex B) would delete the lines 1, 2, 3 and 4

The regex C) would delete the line 3

The regex D) would delete the lines 3 and 4

Cheers,

guy038

@gstavi Yes that was spot on…my text manipulation was looking at \r [CR] when all it needed was to llok at \n [LF] first instead ! Thanks :)

must be try from new comer like me.

is this only work for specific language

Lua is just used to control Scintilla features that are not exposed by Notepad++, but it will work for any language.

what’s the “editor1” and “editor2” refer to ?

Since Notepad++ can have two files open side-by-side it has 2 “editor” instances refered to as “editor1” and “editor2”. So setting both editors makes sure that if you move a file to another view it still works correctly.

these i guess…https://dail8859.github.io/LuaScript/

Yes that’s the official documentation.

I have solved my problem with DisplayFusion.

A native fix would still be desirable.

Hello, Surinder Ram,

In your example, below, do you mean that the separator values is the real VERTICAL LINE, of Unicode value \x007C ?

"Value_1"|"Value_2"|"Value_3"....

If so, I suppose that you would like that :

The syntax ""| would be changed into "|"

The syntax |"" would be changed into "|"

The syntax "" would be changed into "|"

The syntax "| , NOT followed by a double quote mark, would be changed into "|"

The syntax |" , NOT preceded by a double quote mark, would be changed into "|"

The syntax |, NOT surrounded by two double quote marks, would be changed into "|"

And, if any of these syntaxes, above, are found at the end of the current line, it would be changed into a single final double quote mark (")

And, also, when the normal separator form "|" or NO separator, at all, is found, at end of the current line, it would be changed into a single " character

In that case, just follow the few steps, below :

Go back to the very beginning of your file ( Ctrl + Origin )

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

In the Find what zone, type (?:(""\||\|""|""|(?<!")\|"|"\|(?!")|(?<!")\|(?!")|"\|")|(?<=[^"|\r\n]))(?=(\R))|(?1)

In the Replace with zone, type (?2":"|")

Click on the Replace All button

Et voilà !

So, from the original example, below, where :

Only, values 7 - 8 AND values 8 - 9 are correctly separated, on each line

The value9 is correctly ended, in the first line, only

value1"“|value2|”“value3"“value4”|value5|“value6|value7”|“value8”|“value9”
value1"”|value2|““value3"“value4”|value5|“value6|value7”|“value8”|“value9|””
value1"”|value2|““value3"“value4”|value5|“value6|value7”|“value8”|“value9"”|
value1"”|value2|”“value3"“value4”|value5|“value6|value7”|“value8”|“value9"”
value1"”|value2|““value3"“value4”|value5|“value6|value7”|“value8”|“value9|”
value1"”|value2|”“value3"“value4”|value5|“value6|value7”|“value8”|“value9”|
value1"”|value2|"“value3"“value4”|value5|“value6|value7”|“value8”|“value9|
value1"”|value2|”“value3"“value4”|value5|“value6|value7”|“value8”|“value9
value1"”|value2|”“value3"“value4”|value5|“value6|value7”|“value8”|“value9”|”

After that S/R, the different separators would be changed and the different values correctly separated, as below :

value1"|"value2"|"value3"|"value4"|"value5"|"value6"|"value7"|"value8"|"value9" value1"|"value2"|"value3"|"value4"|"value5"|"value6"|"value7"|"value8"|"value9" value1"|"value2"|"value3"|"value4"|"value5"|"value6"|"value7"|"value8"|"value9" value1"|"value2"|"value3"|"value4"|"value5"|"value6"|"value7"|"value8"|"value9" value1"|"value2"|"value3"|"value4"|"value5"|"value6"|"value7"|"value8"|"value9" value1"|"value2"|"value3"|"value4"|"value5"|"value6"|"value7"|"value8"|"value9" value1"|"value2"|"value3"|"value4"|"value5"|"value6"|"value7"|"value8"|"value9" value1"|"value2"|"value3"|"value4"|"value5"|"value6"|"value7"|"value8"|"value9" value1"|"value2"|"value3"|"value4"|"value5"|"value6"|"value7"|"value8"|"value9"

If this S/R ,just, solves your problem, next time, I’ll explain the regexes used !

Best Regards

guy038

Add a new line After the word_2:

Search: WORD_2
Replace By: \n\nWORD_2\n\n

Add a new line Before word_1:

Search: WORD_1
Replace By: \n\nWORD_1\n

Read here more:
http://www.rexegg.com/regex-quickstart.html

@Darius-Damalakas

It appears that between 7.2 and 7.2.1 the “FInd All In Current Document” was assigned Alt+A as a keyboard- accelerator. This appears to be a duplicate assignment, since as you point out, the “Replace All” button has the “A” underlined. When you press Alt+A, the software finds the “Find All in Curr Doc” binding first and invokes that. The technique I linked to earlier should allow you to fix this.

Regarding “resort(ing) to such magic…”, I guess the positive takeaway is that you can fix such things yourself without waiting on someone else to do it. And for some people that stretch Notepad++ to its utter limits, the “magic” is sometimes indispensable. :-)

@garyknott

You can find a Notepad++ manual here: http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/NP%2B%2B_Guides

I (re)found this by googling “Notepad++ manual” – not so difficult. :-)

Thanks for the reply! The individual files are XML order files and have lines which include the number of orders in that particular file. Merging them all into one wouldn’t be ideal without being able to extract them all after - possibly using a custom header as you mention. Ideally, the files also need to retain their filenames.

Please, provide debug info.
Try to do a fresh install