Search and Replace

Claude Martin

Fellow Notepad++ Users,

Could you please help me with the following search-and-replace problem I am having?

I need to search and replace in different documents with a line like
<property name=“CarryWeight” value=“1”/>

The value changes and can be any number and I want to rplace the value with a number of my choosing.

Here is the data I currently have (“before” data):

<property name="CarryWeight" value="1"/>
<property name="CarryWeight" value="20"/>

Here is how I would like that data to look (“after” data):

<property name="CarryWeight" value="0"/>
<property name="CarryWeight" value="0"/>

I feel this is something thats doable but my last computer class was in 1972 and I don'
remember Fortran covering this. :)
Thanks

Alan Kilborn

@Claude-Martin

Are you saying your doc has other “property name” sections, but you only want to change your value in those that have the name CarryWeight?

Claude Martin

@Alan-Kilborn Yes. I could search and replace manually but three of the files have over 7000 lines of code.

Alan Kilborn

@Claude-Martin

What you want is to search and replace only between other text. We have a prior solution for that. See if you can follow the RECIPE for that, but for your specific data.

Claude Martin

@Alan-Kilborn Thank you I’ll give a go.

Neil Schipper

@Alan-Kilborn said in Search and Replace:

What you want is to search and replace only between other text.

You may be right, but nothing in what @Claude-Martin originally showed, nor in the subsequent exchange between you, supports the need for selectively acting on property name="CarryWeight" lines bound by specified higher level tags.

My reading of the need leads me to think simple regex solutions should be satisfactory:


1) replace a specific group of nums with a specific num

Fi: <property name="CarryWeight" value="(?:1|3|15|20)"/>
Re: <property name="CarryWeight" value="PLACE_NEW_NUM_HERE"/>

or

2) replace all nums with a specific num

Fi: <property name="CarryWeight" value="\d+"/>
Re: <property name="CarryWeight" value="PLACE_NEW_NUM_HERE"/>

Alan Kilborn

@Neil-Schipper

Yes, indeed, it may very well be the simpler case. I was fooled because so often these go the other way. :-)