So extracting text with pdftotext is quicker if you have it all in one file instead of one page per file. There is a special character being used as page break, but pycharm does not register it if I search for it. In sublime it shows up as <0x0c>. I cannot copy it here either. Is there a way to replace them with another readable character? Or to read it somehow to register when a page has changed?
This previous (similar) question of mine Search for multiple strings in several files with Sublime 3 was answered with a way to search for multiple strings in multiple files in SublimeText, using the regex OR operator:
Find: (string1|string2)
Where: <open folders>
This works perfectly for searching files where either string1 OR string2 is present. What I need now is to search in lots of files for both strings present. I.e., I need to use the AND operator.
I looked around this question Regular Expressions: Is there an AND operator? and also this one Regex AND operator and came up with the following recipes:
(?=string1)(?=string2)
(?=.*string1)(?=.*string2)
(string1 string2)
(string1\&string2)
but none of them work.
So the question is: how can I search multiple strings in several files at once with SublimeText?
(I'm using SublimeText 3103)
Add: the strings are not necessarily in the same line. They can be located anywhere within each file. For example, this file:
string1 dfgdfg d dfgdf
sadasd
asdasd
dfgdfg string2 dfgdfg
should trigger a match.
Open sublime Text and press
Shift+Ctrl+F
or click on the Find in Files options under Files tab. The above is keyboard shortcut for this option. When you press above key, these are following options
When you select ... button from above, you get 6 options which are Add Folder or Add Open Files or Add Open Folders
To search strings that occur in the same line
Use the following regex for your and operation
(?=.*string1)(?=.*string2)
I am using the following regex
(?=.*def)(?=.*s)\w+ <-- \w+ will help in understanding which line is matched(will see later)
and I am searching within current open files
Make sure the Use Buffer option is enabled (one just before Find). It will display the matches in a new file. Also make sure the Show Context (one just before Use Buffer) option is enabled. This will display the exact line that matches. Now Click on Find on the right side.
Here is the output I am getting
See the difference in background color of line 1315 and 1316(appearing in left side). 1316 is matched line in designation file
This is the image of last part
There were total 6 files that were opened while I used this regex
For finding strings anywhere in file
Use
(?=[\s\S]*string1)(?=[\s\S]*string2)[\s\S]+
but it will kill sublime if number of lines increases.
If there are only two words that you need to find, the following will work super fast in comparison to above
(\bstring1\b[\S\s]*\bstring2\b)|(\bstring2\b[\S\s]*\bstring1\b)
I am having an annoying behavior in Sublime.
When I start typing out the line...
using namespace SomeNamespace;
The keywords 'using' and 'namespace' are properly colored the keyword coloring. Then when I add the semicolon to the end of the line, the namespace keyword goes white (default text color). I know this is not that significant, but it really annoys me.
Has anyone noticed this behavior before? The code compiles without errors or warnings, so I know sublime is not detecting some so of code problem.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this problem?
The problem is in this particular regex in the C++ syntax definition:
\b(namespace)\s+([A-Za-z_][_A-Za-z0-9:]*\b)?+(?!\s*?(;|=|,))
At the very end, in the negative lookahead - (?!...) - we see that semicolons are excluded from the match, meaning that if a semicolon is present at the very end of the line, there's no match.
To fix it, you'll need to install the very useful PackageResourceViewer plugin from Package Control. Then, open the Command Palette, type prv to bring up the PackageResourceViewer options, select the Extract Package one, then scroll down and select C++. There will now be a C++ directory in the directory opened by choosing Preferences -> Browse Packages.... Go into that directory and you'll see a bunch of files. Depending on what version of Sublime Text 3 you're using, you'll want to open either C++.tmLanguage or C++.sublime-syntax in Sublime. The .tmLanguage format is XML, so you can pick that for syntax highlighting if you wish, while the .sublime-syntax file is in YAML.
Once the appropriate file is open (you'll either have one or the other, not both), search for the regex above, or just search for namespace, you should find it pretty easily. Delete the ;| from near the end, making the whole thing:
\b(namespace)\s+([A-Za-z_][_A-Za-z0-9:]*\b)?+(?!\s*?(=|,))
Save the file, and that's it! Your C++ source files should update their behavior immediately - if not, just close and reopen them, and in the worst case you can just close them, restart Sublime, then reopen them.
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 use Sublime 2 for developing R and PHP code, although I imagine this shortcut would be useful for other languages.
If I copy the path of a file from Windows Explorer / XYPlorer (or other source) it has backslashes for directories. When entering a path into the source code, it needs forward slashes.
Sublime has some reasonably powerful macro commands, but I cannot think of a combination that would be able to:
take the string of text on the current line
replace all instances of '\' and replace them with '/'
Here is the workflow that I envisage:
Locate my filename in Explorer and copy its path
In Sublime, write a line of code and paste in the path
Hit a keyboard shortcut, say Ctrl+Shift+\, and all back slashes are converted to forward slashes
The result:
myPath = "E:\WORK\Code\myFile.csv";
Becomes:
myPath = "E:/WORK/Code/myFile.csv";
Without running the risk of backslashes elsewhere in the file being changed (e.g. \n characters), and without having to use multiple key presses or mouse clicks.
I imagine this would be possible with Regex. Two things I am no expert in are Sublime macros or regex, so I wonder if anyone else knows the magical commands that would achieve this?
I tried this for about 15 minutes. A few things:
Sublime text 2 doesn't allow for find/replace with macros
Sublime text 3 doesn't allow for 'find in selection'
So, I think you are kind of beat right now other than writing a plugin, which would be fairly straightforward.
This works for Sublime Text 3:
Type r before the string to tell python to read the directory as a raw string.
This way all the backslashes are read as slashes instead of 'ignore next character' (default meaning of \ in python)
Example
myPath = r"E:\WORK\Code\myFile.csv"
Python should now read the \ as /