I have multiple files with text in parenthesis that I need to extract from the file (or delete everything else in that file). I have a method that works, but it only works for one file. Here is an example of the kind of files I'm dealing with.
(is it on?)
[3.87595 3.87595 0 ]xsh
grestore
NDTMRY+Helvetica[8.5 0 0 -8.5 0 0 ]msf
mo
(NO)
The method I have used is as follows:
in notepad++ under the mark tab in find replace; Find: ^(.*?$ (with bookmark line checked)
Search>bookmarks>remove unbookmarked lines
Is there a way/better way to do this for multiple files at a time? In this or another language such as python.
Thanks!
Yes, it is possible to remove in multiple files lines that do not start with (.
Here is the screenshot with settings:
So, here are the instructions:
Press Ctrl+H and click Find in Files
In Find What, type ^(?!\().*\R*, keep Replace With empty
Add file masks in Filters
Select the initial directory in Directory.
Make sure Regular expression radio button is selected.
Adjust other options and hit Replace in Files button.
I have a basic informatica load. Flat file to Flat file and no transformations.
My source flat file does not have quotes.
EX: A B C D
When I run my job I get quotes.
EX: "A" "B" "C" "D"
Please help!
In the session, target file properties, you can set your preferences regarding double quote, single quote or no quote.
Set Optional Quotes to none in session, target file properties
Set File Properties
Delimited -> Advanced
Set Optional Quotes to None
I want to filter everything from a log that belongs to a particular user.
With the following pattern, and the ". matches newline" option enabled, I can match everything that I am looking for, but when I ask Notepad++ to bookmark these line so I can copy them, something strange happens.
([^\n]+)userB(.+?)(?=([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}))
In front of line 2 and 8 I see a bookmark icon, but the lines: 3,4,5 and 9,10,11 are missing an icon, although they belong to the highlighted text.
Why does Notepad++ highlight the text, but doesn't place the bookmark correctly? And more importantly, how can I fix this?
Here is the log that I am using:
2015-03-02 11:28:44,993 INFO application [http-0.0.0.0-8080-17] userA 99:7 12345 some message
2015-03-02 11:28:45,468 WARN application [http-0.0.0.0-8080-9] userB 12:2 some message
extra information
at some.classes.and.function(Filename.java:123)
at some.classes.and.function(Filename.java:123)
2015-03-02 11:28:44,993 INFO application [http-0.0.0.0-8080-17] userA 99:7 12345 some message
2015-03-02 11:28:44,993 INFO application [http-0.0.0.0-8080-17] userA 99:7 12345 some message
2015-03-02 11:28:45,468 WARN application [http-0.0.0.0-8080-9] userB 12:2 some message
extra information
at some.classes.and.function(Filename.java:123)
at some.classes.and.function(Filename.java:123)
2015-03-02 11:28:44,993 INFO application [http-0.0.0.0-8080-17] userA 99:7 12345 some message
The following will extract the information you want without using bookmarks and should work in Notepad++ version 6.9.1 onwards.
It assumes that the lines of extra information don't start with a digit.
It deletes the copied lines from the data file so work on a copy of the data file if you want to preserve it.
It is not very efficient because the switch tab command positions the cursor back at the start of a tab's text.
It duplicates the last match for userB. (A minor irritant!)
Description
1) Define shortcuts for switching to next & previous tabs
2) Open the data file with Notepad++
3) Open a new tab then go back to the data file tab
4) Define a macro `Cut User data. Paste in next tab`
5) Run the macro `Cut User data. Paste in next tab` on the data file to `end of file`
(It needs to be run once prior to running it in `Run a Macro Multiple Times`
because of a quirk of Notepad++)
Method
1) Settings Shortcut Mapper Main menu
Switch to previous document = Ctrl+Alt+Left
Switch to next document = Ctrl+Alt+Right
Close
2) Open data file with Notepad++
3) File New Ctrl+Alt+Left
4) Start Recording
Find Find what: .+ userB.+\r\n(\D.+\r\n)*
Search Mode = Regular expression
Find Next Alt+F4
Ctrl+X Ctrl+Alt+Right
Ctrl+End Ctrl+V Ctrl+Alt+Left
Stop recording
Save Current Recorded Macro
Name: Cut User data. Paste in next tab OK
5) Macro Cut User data. Paste in next tab
Run a Macro Multiple Times
Macro to run: Cut User data. Paste in next tab
Run until end of file = Yes
Run then when it has stopped Cancel
(Editted to be an answer.)
At least in the current version of Notepad++ the macro halts while the switch dialog box appears when using the macro solution and switching tabs.
You must first go to settings, MISC., document switcher, and disable both check boxes. This is at least true in v7.6.
I have a text file as:
0xC1,0x80,
0x63,0x00,
0x3F,0x80,
0x01,0xA0,
I want output as:
Line1: 0xC1,0x63,0x3F,0x01,
Line2: 0x80,0x00,0x80,0xA0,
How to do this using replace function in Notepad++?
You can use the below shortcuts to do the transpose in Notepad ++
Step 1: Ctrl + A: selects all.
Step 2: Ctrl + J: Transpose the Row you selected
Use the box select feature to select the second column text.
Use Alt+Shift+Arraw keys to select the second column.
Copy the selected text to a new file.
Use Find/Replace to remove all the newline characters.
Ctrl+F to open find/replace dialog box.
Select either Extended or Regular Expression Serach mode.
Type \r\n in Find What box.
Keep the Replace with box blank.
Click on Replace All in ALL Open Documents.
Now, the text is brought in single line.
Copy the text from second file and paste it to second line of first file.
Cheers...
There is no built-in function in Notepad++ for transposing a matrix and you can't do it using Replace (as M42 pointed out). Also, I'm not aware of any related plugin. So you will either need a different editor or do it with a script. The simplest solution I guess using a Spreadsheet, eg Excel or OpenOffice, both of them allow you to easily transpose a table.
But, there's still a good alternative without leaving Notepad++. Is to use the Python Script plugin.
Setup Python Script plugin
Install Python Script plugin, from Plugin Manager or from the official website.
When installed, go to Plugins > Python Script > New Script. Choose a filename for your new script (eg transpose.py) and copy the first code block that follows and copy the second one to another script, called for example transpose_uneven.py.
Open your data file and then run Plugins > Python Script > Scripts > transpose.py. This will open a new tab with your data transposed.
transpose.py
delimiter=","
newline="\n"
content=editor.getText()
matrix=[line.split(delimiter) for line in content.rstrip(newline).split(newline)]
transposed=list(map(list, zip(*matrix)))
notepad.new()
for line in transposed:
editor.addText(delimiter.join(line) + newline)
if len(transposed)!=len(matrix[0]):
console.clear()
console.show()
console.write("Warning: some rows are of uneven length. You might consider using the transpose_uneven script instead.")
transpose_uneven.py
import itertools
delimiter=","
newline="\n"
content=editor.getText()
matrix=[line.split(delimiter) for line in content.rstrip(newline).split(newline)]
transposed=list(map(list, itertools.izip_longest(*matrix, fillvalue="")))
notepad.new()
for line in transposed:
editor.addText(delimiter.join(line) + newline)
Examples
The transpose.py script will transpose the following example:
0xC1,0x80,
0x63,0x00,
0x3F,0x80,
0x01,0xA0,
To:
0xC1,0x63,0x3F,0x01
0x80,0x00,0x80,0xA0
,,,
If some of your rows are uneven:
0xC1,0x80,
0x63,0x00,
0x3F,0x80,
0x01,0xA0,
0x02
The uneven columns will be discarded accordingly:
0xC1,0x63,0x3F,0x01,0x02
If this is not desired, use transposed_uneven.py and it will return:
0xC1,0x63,0x3F,0x01,0x02
0x80,0x00,0x80,0xA0,
,,,,
If you really have such a fixed format and need such a fixed output i normally try it with an instant macro.
So my cursor is in the top left corner of the file ready to manipulate and i press the record button (or within the menu bar Macro - Start recording).
In you specific case now press:
End
Del
Pos1
↓
End hit the stop button (or within the menu bar Macro - Stop recording).
Now for a first test hit the playback button (or within the menu bar Macro - Playback) and test if it works. If yes click on Macro - Run a macro multiple times and select Run until the end of file.
I need to do quite a few regular expression search/replaces throughout hundreds and hundreds of static files. I'm looking to build an audit trail so I at least know what files were touched by what searches/replaces.
I can do my regular expression searches in Notepad++ and it gives me file names/paths and number of hits in each file. It also gives me the line #s which I don't really care that much about.
What I really want is a separate text file of the file names/paths. The # of hits in each file would be a nice addition, but really it's just a list of file names/paths that I'm after.
In Notepad++'s search results pane, I can do a right click and copy, but that includes all the line #s and code which is just too much noise, especially when you're getting hundreds of matches.
Anyone know how I can get these results to just the file name/paths? I'm after something like:
/about/foo.html
/about/bar.html
/faq/2012/awesome.html
/faq/2013/awesomer.html
/foo/bar/baz/wee.html
etc.
Then I can name that file regex_whatever_search.txt and at the top of it include the regex used for the search and replace. Below that, I've got my list of files it touched.
UPDATE What looks like the easiest thing to do (at least that I've found) is to just copy all the search results into a new text file and run the following regex:
^\tLine.+$
And replace that with an empty string. That'll give you just the file path and hit counts with a lot of empty space between each entry. Then run the following regex:
\s+\n
And replace with:
\n
That'll strip out all the unwanted empty space and you'll be left with a nice list.
maybe you need power of unix tools
assume you have GNUWin32 installed in c:\tools\gnuwin32
than if you have replace.bat file with that content:
#echo off
set BIN=c:\tools\gnuwin32\bin
set WHAT=%1
set TOWHAT=%2
set MASK=%3
rem Removing quotes
SET WHAT=###%WHAT%###
SET WHAT=%WHAT:"###=%
SET WHAT=%WHAT:###"=%
SET WHAT=%WHAT:###=%
SET TOWHAT=###%TOWHAT%###
SET TOWHAT=%TOWHAT:"###=%
SET TOWHAT=%TOWHAT:###"=%
SET TOWHAT=%TOWHAT:###=%
SET MASK=###%MASK%###
SET MASK=%MASK:"###=%
SET MASK=%MASK:###"=%
SET MASK=%MASK:###=%
echo %WHAT% replaces to %TOWHAT%
rem printing matching files
%BIN%\grep -r -c "%WHAT%" %MASK%
rem actual replace
%BIN%\find %MASK% -type f -exec %BIN%\sed -i "s/%WHAT%/%TOWHAT%/g" {} +
you can do regex replace in masked files recursively with output you required
replace "using System.Windows" "using Nothing" *.cs
The regulat expression I use for this kind of problem is
^\tLine.[0-9]*:.
And it works for me
This works well if you have Excel available and want to avoid using regular expressions:
Ctrl+A to select all the results
drag & drop the selected results to Excel
Create a Filter on the 1st row
Filter out the lines that have "(Blank)" on the 1st column
Select the remaining lines (i.e. the lines with the filenames) and copy/paste them to another sheet or any wanted destination
You could also Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C the search results, then use the Paste Option "Use Text Import Wizard" in Excel, say that the data is "Fixed width" and put one single break line after the 2nd character (to remove the two leading spaces in the filename during import), and use a filter to filter out the unwanted rows.