I'm trying to find all lines without ending period (dot) but without finding blank (empty) lines. And after that I want to add ending period to that sentence.
Example:
The good is whatever stops such things from happening.
Meaning as the Higher Good
It was from this that I drew my fundamental moral conclusions.
I have tried few regex but they also find empty lines as well.
Is there a regex for Notepad++ that can achieve that?
Enable Regular Expression match, then search for:
\S(?<!\.)\K\s*$
and replace with:
.$0
Breakdown:
\S Match a non-whitespace character
(?<!\.) It shouldn't be a period
\K Reset match
\s* Match optional whitespace characters
$ End of line
You could use something like this to find the lines that you are interested in adding capture group to it and appending you needed chars.
(?<!\.)\r\n
This works by using negative look behind (?<!\.) to check that there is no . before \r
There is a group or regex operators that can be used to accomplish this type of tasks.
Look ahead positive (?=)
Look ahead negative (?!)
Look behind positive (?<=)
Look behind negative (?
Try this short and effective solution too.
Search: \w$
Replace: $0.
Related
I want to use regex in notepad to find this pattern: "[0-9]+[\.][0-9]+[,][0-9]+" e.g. 1.010,80260
However from these kind of numbers I just want to remove the '.' , so the new value should be 1010,80260 .
So far I can only replace the whole pattern. Is there a way to do it?
Thank you in advance!
You can make use of the \K meta escape since PCRE doesn't support variable width lookbehinds:
regex:
[0-9]+\K[\.](?=[0-9]+[,][0-9]+)
[0-9]+ - capture digits
\K - forget what we've captured
[\.] - capture a period; just \. can be used, no need for the char class brackets
(?=[0-9]+[,][0-9]+) - ahead of me should be digits followed by a comma and digits
replace:
Nothing
\K is bugged in Notepad++ so you could use this regex instead since you only care that at least one digit is behind the period:
(?<=\d)\.(?=[0-9]+[,][0-9]+)
You can use \K, which basically says throw away whatever was matched up until that point, then add a lookahead. Like so
[0-9]+\K\.(?=[0-9]+[,][0-9]+)
Change the regular expression to: ([0-9]+)[\.]([0-9]+[,][0-9]+)
The () pieces are groups which you can refer to in the replace with \1 for the first group, and \2 for the second group.
The docs also explain this here: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/#substitution-grouping (even better, and in more detail, than my usage in this answer...)
EDIT: I just wanted to share the animated gif showing that 'Replace' in Notepad++ 7.9.5. does not seem to work.
I m trying to improve my regex skills.
I can't manage this exercise.
https://alf.nu/RegexGolf
You have to match words without consecutive identical characters.
To make it clear, we should avoid patterns like abba, or baab, czzc.
The only way I see is to use capture groups:
([a-z])([a-z])\2\1
Then have a negative lookahead:
(?!([a-z])([a-z])\2\1)
But on the site it doesn't work since it doesn't match anything.
Any advice?
Thank you
Use a negative lookahead:
^(?:(.)(?!\1))*$
Explanation:
^ from the start of the input
(?:
(.) match AND capture a single character
(?!\1) then assert that what follows is a different character (not the same)
)* match zero or more such matching characters
$ end of the input
Demo
Another, possibly cleaner, way to do this would be to just have a global negative lookahead at the very start of the pattern:
^(?!.*(.)\1).*$
This would assert at the very beginning that no character is duplicated, anywhere in the string.
^(?!cr|pal|tar)[a-z]{1,4}([a-z])\1[a-z]{0,5}$
This worked for me in the link you gave. I guess we had to match patterns with consecutive letters. But there were some exceptions for which I had to use negative look ahead at the beginning. I have used ([a-z])\1 to match consecutive characters surrounded by possible characters of possible limit. Hope this helps!
Attached the screenshot for reference.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/va1Uq.png
Thanks to Tim Biegeleisen, here is the answer.
^(?!.*(.)(.)\2\1).*$
I've been trying hard to get this Regex to work, but am simply not good enough at this stuff apparently :(
Regex - Trying to extract sources
I thought this would work... I'm trying to get all of the content where:
It starts with ds://
Ends with either carriage return or line feed
That's it! Essentially I'm going to then do a negative lookahead such that I can remove all content that is NOT conforming to above (in Notepad++) which allows for Regex search/replace.
Search for lines that contain the pattern, and mark them
Search menu > Mark
Find what: ds://.*\R
check Regular expression
Check Mark the lines
Find all
Remove the non marked lines
Search menu > Bookmark
Remove unmarked lines
You don't need to add the \w specifier to look for a word after the ds:// in the look ahead. Removing that and altering the final specification from "zero or one carriage return, then zero or one newline" to "either a carriage return or a newline" in capture group should do it for you:
(?=ds:\/\/).*(?:\r|\n)
Update: Carriage return or Line feed group does not need to be captured.
Update 2: The following regex will actually work for your proposed use case in the comments, matching everything but the pattern you described in the question.
^(?:(?!ds:\/\/.*(?:\r|\n)).)*$
You regex (?=ds:\w+).*\r?\n? does not match because in the content there is ds:// and \w does not match a forward slash. To make your regex work you could change it to:
(?=ds://\w+).*\r?\n? demo which can be shortened to ds://.*\R? demo
Note that you don't have to escape the forward slash.
If you want to do a find and replace to keep the lines that contain ds:// you could use a negative lookahead:
Find what
^(?!.*ds://).*\R?
Replace with
Leave empty
Explanation
^ Start of the string
(?!.*ds://) Negative lookahead to assert the string does not contain ds://
.* Match any character 0+ times
\R? An optional unicode newline sequence to also match the last line if it is not followed by a newline
See the Regex demo
Here you go, Andrew:
Regex: ds:\/\/.*
Link: https://regex101.com/r/ulO9GO/2
Let me know if any question.
I want to select words ending in with a regular expression, but I want exclude words that end in thing. For example:
everything
running
catching
nothing
Of these words, running and catching should be selected, everything and nothing should be excluded.
I've tried the following:
.+ing$
But that selects everything. I'm thinking look aheads/look arounds could be the solution, but I haven't been able to get one that works.
Solutions that work in Python or R would be helpful.
In python you can use negative lookbehind assertion as this:
^.*(?<!th)ing$
RegEx Demo
(?<!th) is negative lookbehind expression that will fail the match if th comes before ing at the end of string.
Note that if you are matching words that are not on separate lines then instead of anchors use word boundaries as:
\w+(?<!th)ing\b
Something like \b\w+(?<!th)ing\b maybe.
You might also use a negative lookahead (?! to assert that what is on the right is not 0+ times a word character followed by thing and a word boundary:
\b(?!\w*thing\b)\w*ing\b
Regex demo | Python demo
I have a line like this:
#define PROG_HWNR "36084"
or this:
#define PROG_HWNR "#37595"
I'd like to extract the number (and increase it, but that's not the matter here)
I wrote a regex, but it's not working (at least in http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ )
(?<="#?)(.*?)(?=")
I also tried variations like
(?<=("#?))(.*?)(?=")
or
(?<=("|"#)))(.*?)(?=")
But no success. The problem is, that I want to match only the number, no matter if there is a # or not ...
Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks!!
Try this regex:
"#?(\d+)"$
It will match:
" a quote
#? optional hash
( (start capturing)
\d+ one or more digits
) (stop capturing)
" a quote
$ anchor to end
Here is a JSFiddle, and here is a RegExr
The problem is the variable length of the lookbehind. Only few regex engines can deal with this. Because there are only two possible lookbehinds (including the # or not), you can expand that into two lookbehinds:
(?:(?<="#)|(?<=")).*?(?=")
Note that you don't need to capture the .*? if you use lookarounds, as they are excluded from the match anyway. Also, a better way than using non-greedy .*? is to use a greedy expression that can never go past the ending delimiter:
(?:(?<="#)|(?<="))[^"]*(?=")
Alternatively (if you can access captured submatches), you can use a capturing approach and get rid of the lookarounds:
"#?([^"]*)"
Try this:
^#define \w+ "#?(\d+)"$
That will match the whole line, with the first/single group being the number you are looking for.
This is actually pretty basic regex functionality: match an optional character (?) and match a group of characters (the parentheses).
You can even go one simpler:
\d+
will match a string of digits. Only the digits. And ignore the rest of the input string.
Use this tool for testing this stuff, I found it pretty handy: http://derekslager.com/blog/posts/2007/09/a-better-dotnet-regular-expression-tester.ashx