“Search / Replaces in files”-function allows only 1 line.

Who said so? If you know where line breaks will occur, try \R-Pattern as Placeholder. Or check option . finds \r and \n.

In replacement, insert \r\n at places where you want line breaks.

When using . finds \r and \n pay special attention to greedy/non greedy repeats.

Hello
I have installed it.
But I don’t found to change many lines in MANY files — perhaps I did not find it and please give me a hint.
For example 10000 files in a folder.
For example I search 3 lines and instead of this lines I need to put in 10 different lines.

Please help
Mayer

I have had the same problem. Only one line could be changed at a time.
I made the end of the line following the last populated field… no trailing spaces.
Now I run EOF or number of lines and it goes through the entire file, but only the first line is updated properly.

I am inserting spaces to create a space delimited text file to unload to CSV file.

Only the first record is converted properly.
It looks like each subsequent line has a space added in it that is not visible. Wonder if it is related to CR or LF at the end of each line.

Hello Carol,

Just click to my post to ColinsForum, two days ago :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/11918/arrangement-of-multi-line-tabs-in-alphabetic-order/2

You can skip the first part, if you don’t care to backup the present order of your tabs :-))

Enjoy N++,

Best Regards,

guy038

Many thanks for the input @guy038 it is most appreciated.

Matt

this is very helpful i’m looking on dev-ing a website for some microsoft guy and he is trying to figure out the proper way for notepad++ for shopping.

Hello Joe Murphy,

I’ve got a solution :-))

So, let’s suppose that you have :

A huge file, File A, with a lot of records, containing several fields, separated with comma

A smaller file, File B with some records, having the same organisation. This File B may contain, either :

Some records identical to those, in File A

Some fields, numbered n, identical to those, in File A, with the same number n

Just one hypothesis : Each record must NOT begin with a comma character

So, two main cases may happen :

You need to bookmark all the records, of File A, that have a same record in File B

You need to bookmark all the records, of File A, whose Field n have a corresponding Field n, in a record of File B

Follow the different steps, below :

Open, first, your file File B, in Notepad++

Select all the contents of File B ( CTRL + A )

Save it, in the clipboard ( CTRL + C )

Now, open your file File A

Add, at the end of File A, a new line #####, which will determine the boundary, between the two files File A and File B !

You must choose any character, NOT present in, both, File A and File B. It may be, either, a @, %, &,… character

Then append the contents of the clipboard, at the end of File A, after the line ##### ( CTRL + V )

Go back to very beginning of the present File A ( CTRL + Origin )

Open the Find dialog ( CTRL + F )

Select the Mark tab

Check the Bookmark line option

Select the Regular expression search mode

Depending of case 1) or 2) chosen, type in the regex :

SEARCH : (?-s)^(.+\R)(?=(?s).*#####.*?\1) for case 1)

SEARCH : ^([^,\r\n]+?,){n-1}\K([^,\r\n]+)(?=(?s).*#####.*?\2) for case 2)

IMPORTANT : In the second regex, just change the n-1 formula by the appropriate number, depending on number n of the concerned field )

Click on the Mark All button

Depending of case 1) or 2) chosen :

=> All the lines, of File A, with an identical line, located downwards, after the line #####, ( from File B ) are bookmarked

=> All the lines, of File A, with an identical Field n, located downwards, after the line #####, ( from File B ) are bookmarked

Move to line #####

Delete from that line ##### to the end of the file ( all the appended lines of File B )

Finally, save, the new state of File A, with all the bookmarks

Et voilà !

Notes :

If some lines/fields are identical in File A, without, at least, one corresponding line/field, in File B, they are NOT bookmarked, due to the ##### boundary !

If some lines/fields are identical, in File B, it doesn’t matter, as long as there is, at least, one corresponding line/field, in File A, which will be, correctly, bookmarked

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S.. :

I forgot to tell you about the (?s) and (?-s) modifiers :

Usually, when the . matches newline option, of the Find dialog is unchecked OR when you use the (?-s) form, any dot, in the regex, stands for a standard character, that is to say any character, part of the class [^\r\n\f]

However, when the . matches newline option is checked OR when you use the (?s) form, in regexes, the dot stands for absolutely any character ( standard and/or End of Line characters ). For instance, if the cursor is at the very beginning of the current file, the simple regex (?s).* matches any character and is equivalent to a CTRL + A command !!

I know that if the Notepad settings structure doesn’t exist in the user’s AppData area, the plugin will hang upon launch of Notepad++.