New displaying of the "Search Results" panel

guy038

Hello, All,

One minor drawback, when you display the Search results panel, is that the name of each file does not appear before the line number and the line itself !

See, for example, this post : https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21722/format-of-search-results

Here is the way to realize this goal !

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\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 !

For a more appealing presentation within N++, if you have the Columns++ plugin, do the following actions :

Check the Elastic tabstops option
Run the Convert tabs to spaces option

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" (76665 hits in 498 files of 578 searched) [Normal]

I got an INPUT file of 51,224 lines for about 10,2 Mb

And, after the above process :

Reverse line order
Regex Replacement
Reverse line order

Which took 66s, I got an OUTPUT file of 50,713 lines, for about 12 Mb, with filename, number and text aligned

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

FIND (\d+)(\x20*)(?=\x20:\x20)

REPLACE \2\1

Voila !

Best Regards,

guy038

guy038

Hi, All,

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 !