I have this text opened in notepad++ 7.5.2 text editor :
- Note 1 message={"one":1}]
- Note 5 message={"two":2}]
- Note 2 message={"three":3}]
- Note 7 message={"four":4}]
For each line, I want to keep only the text between the brackets starting and ending brackets { } and the bracket themselves. I tried a regex - Note.* message= in https://regex101.com/ and it works. I am able to find lines in matching the regex in notepad++. But, I am not able to replace them with nothing.
How do I do the replacement ?
You may use
^- Note.* message=(.*)]$
Replace with $1. See the regex demo.
Details
^ - start of a line
- Note - - Note text
.* - any 0+ chars other than line break chars, as many as possible
message= - message= text
(.*) - Capturing group 1 ($1): any 0+ chars other than line break chars, as many as possible
] - a ] char
$ - end of a line.
Notepad++ demo and settings:
Related
Here is a text example that I will usually get:
CERTIFICATION/repos_1/test_examples_1_01_C.py::test_case[6]
CERTIFICATION/repos_1/test_examples_2_01_C.py::test_case[7]
INTEGRATION/test_example_scan_1.py::test_case
INTEGRATION/test_example_scan_2.py::test_case
Here is the regex I'm using to capture 3 different groups:
^.*\/(.*)\.py.*:{2}(.*(\[.*\])?)
If we take an example with the first line of my examples I should get:
test_examples_1_BV_01_C - test_case[6] - [6]
And for the last line:
test_example_scan_2 - test_case - None
But if you try this regex you will find out that the first example does not work. I can't get
the [6]. If you remove the "?" you will have no match with line that does not have "[.*]" at the end
So, how can I get all those information ? And what do I do wrong ?
Regards
You can use
^.*\/(.*)\.py.*::(.*?(\[.*?\])?)$
See the regex demo
Details:
^ - start of string
.* - any zero or more chars other than line break chars, as many as possible
\/ - a / char
(.*) - Group 1: any zero or more chars other than line break chars, as many as possible
\.py - .py substring
.* - any zero or more chars other than line break chars, as many as possible
:: - a :: string
(.*?(\[.*?\])?) - Group 2: any zero or more chars other than line break chars, as few as possible, and then an optional Group 3 matching [, any zero or more chars other than line break chars, as few as possible, and a ]
$ - end of string.
With the help of negated character class you can get all matches and make this regex lot more efficient:
^.*/([^.]+)\.py::([^[]+(\[[^]]*]|))$
RegEx Demo
I need to do a find and delete the rest in a text file with notepad+++
i want tu use RegeX to find variations on thban..... the variable always has max 5 chars behind it(see dots).
with my search string it hit the last line but the whole line. I just want the word preserved.
When this works i also want keep the words containing C3.....
The rest of a tekst file can be delete.
It should also be caps insensitive
(?!thban\w+).*\r?\n?
\
THBANES900 and C3950 bla bla
THBAN
..THBANES901.. C3850 bla bla
THBANMP900
**..thbanes900..**
This should result in
THBANES900 C3950
THBAN
THBANES901 C3850
THBANMP900
thbanes900
Maybe just capture those words of interest instead of replacing everything else? In Notepad++ search for pattern:
^.*\b(thban\S{0,5})(?:.*(\sC3\w+))?.*$|.+
See the Online Demo
^ - Start string ancor.
.*\b - Any character other than newline zero or more times upto a word-boundary.
(- Open 1st capture group.
thban\S{0,5} - Match "thban" and zero or 5 non-whitespace chars.
) - Close 1st capture group.
(?: - Open non-capturing group.
.* - Any character other than newline zero or more times.
( - Open 2nd capture group.
\sC3\w+ - A whitespace character, match "C3" and one ore more word characters.
) - Close 2nd capture group.
)? - Close non-capturing group and make it optional.
.* - Any character other than newline zero or more times.
$ - End string ancor.
| - Alternation (OR).
.+ - Any character other than newline once or more.
Replace with:
$1$2
After this, you may end up with empty line you can switly remove using the build-in option. I'm unaware of the english terms so I made a GIF to show you where to find these buttons:
I'm not sure what the english checkbutton is for ignore case. But make sure that is not ticked.
You may use
Find What: (?|\b(thban\S{0,5})|\s(C3\w+))|(?s:.)
Replace With: (?1$1\n:)
Screenshot & settings
Details
(?| - start of a branch reset group:
\b(thban\S{0,5}) - Group 1: a word boundary, then thban and any 0 to 5 non-whitespace chars
| - or
\s(C3\w+) - a whitespace char, and then Group 1: C3 and one or more word chars
) - end of the branch reset group
| - or
(?s:.) - any one char (including line break chars)
The replacement is
(?1 - if Group 1 matched,
$1\n - Group 1 value with a newline
: - else, replace with empty string
) - end of the conditional replacement pattern
I got an huge log of records I need to turn into a table.
Each line has a record, preceded by date and time, something like this:
27/11/2019 16:35 - i don't need this
28/11/2019 17:25 - don't need this either
30/11/2019 11:33 - stuff i'm looking for
01/12/2019 08:11 - stuff that i'm also looking for
03/11/2019 09:39 - don't need this
I want to completely clear the file from all the lines that I don't need.
I'm able to clear most of the lines that I don't want if I use the following regex and substitution patterns (in notepad++, using the flag in which dot matches newline):
.+?(?<datetime>[\d\/]+\s[\d:]+)\s-\s(?<mystuff>stuff[^\n]+)
'${datetime};${mystuff}
However, I can't clear the lines after the last match. How could I do so?
You may use
Find What: ^(?:.+?([\d/]+\h[\d:]+)\h-\h(stuff.*)|.*\R?)
Replace With: (?{1}$1;$2)
Details
^ - start of a line
(?:.+?([\d/]+\h[\d:]+)\h-\h(stuff.*)|.*\R?) - match either
.+? - any 1+ chars, as few as possible
([\d/]+\h[\d:]+) - Group 1: one or more digits or /, a horizontal whitespace, one or more digits or :
\h-\h - a horizontal whitespace, - and a hor. whitespace
(stuff.*) - Group 2: stuff and the rest of the line
| - or
.* - any 0+ chars other than linebreak chars
\R? - an optional line break sequence.
The (?{1}$1;$2) replacement pattern only replaces with $1;$2 if Group 1 matches.
See the Notepad++ demo:
I'm actually creating a discord bot and I'm trying to match some command options and I have a problem getting the value between the square brackets. (if there is)
I've already tried to add a ? to match one or more of these but it's not working, searching about how I could match between two characters but found nothing that helped me.
Here is the pattern I've got so far : https://regexr.com/4icgi
and here it is in text : /[+|-](.+)(\[(.+)\])?/g
What I expect it to do is from an option like that : +user[someRandomPeople]
to extract the parameter user and the value someRandomPeople and if there is no square brackets, it will only extract the parameter.
You may use
^[+-](.*?)(?:\[(.*?)\])?$
Or, if there should be no square brackets inside the optional [...] substring at the end:
^[+-](.*?)(?:\[([^\][]*)\])?$
Or, if the matches are searched for on different lines:
^[+-](.*?)(?:\[([^\][\r\n]*)\])?$
See the regex demo and the regex graph:
Details
^ - start of string
[+-] - + or - (note that | inside square brackets matches a literal | char)
(.*?) - Group 1: any 0 or more chars other than line break chars as few as possible
(?:\[(.*?)\])? - an optional sequence of
\[ - a [ char
(.*?) - Group 2: any 0 or more chars other than line break chars as few as possible ([^\][]* matches 0 or more chars other than [ and ])
\] - a ] char
$ - end of string.
I'm using UltraEdit. I have a text file that contains strings like this
Workspace\\Trays\\Dialogs\\Components, Expand, kThisComputerOnly, P_BOOLEAN },
WebCommonDialog Sign_Out, Left, kThisComputerOnly, P_INTEGER_RANGE(0, 4096) },
ThreeDTextDlg, x, kThisComputerOnly, P_INTEGER_RANGE(0, 4096) },
Preferences\\Graphics, CtxDbgMaxGLVersionMajor, kThisComputerOnly, P_INTEGER },
UltraEdit allows PERL, UNIX and UltraEdit style RegEx.
I need to select the second comma and everything to the end of the line and delete it.
Using regexpal.com I've tried several different approaches but can't figure it out.
/,\s.+/ selects the first comma
/[,]\s.+/ same as above
I can't figure out how to select the second command and beyond.
I have also search StackOverflow and found several examples but couldn't change them to work for me.
Thanks.
You may use a Perl regex option with the following pattern:
^([^,]*,[^,]*),.*
and replace with \1.
See the regex demo.
Details:
^ - start of string
([^,]*,[^,]*) - Group 1 (later referred to with \1 backreference from the replacement pattern):
[^,]* - any 0+ chars other than a comma (to prevent overflowing across lines, add \n\r into the negated character class - [^,\n\r]*)
, - a comma
[^,]* - any 0+ chars other than a comma
, - a comma
.* - any 0+ chars other than line break chars as many as possible