I've got a list of words I'm using for writing a game:
words[0[0] = 'INCREDIBLE'
words[0[1] = 'SUPERB'
words[0[2] = 'SUBLIME'
words[0[3] = 'PHENOMENAL'
words[0[4] = 'BLITZKRIEG'
words[1[0] = 'EXCELLENT'
words[1[1] = 'BOFFO'
words[1[2] = 'SMASH'
words[1[3] = 'SUPREME'
words[1[4] = 'OUTSTANDING'
I want to make this into a 2d array by replacing the second '[' with ','
Obviously I can do this manually in no time at all. Nevertheless it's something I'd very much like to learn how to do with regex and notepad++. How would I identify the second '[' and then replace it without changing the adjoining numbers?
Currently I use \d+[\d+ to find it.
Just use this:
Find what: (\[\d+)\[
Replace with: $1,
If all or most [ are are in the same column, you can also use Alt to select the whole column via mouse and just enter ' to replace it in the whole marked range.
Try to replace (^words\[\d+)\[ by $1,
I used lookbehind (?<=\d)[
Lookahead and lookbehind are two very neat (and seemingly necessary) regex features.
Related
Let's say I have a line,
$bagel = parser(1);
$potato = parser(3+(other var));
$avocado = parser(3-(var1+var2+var3));
$untouchedtoast = donotremove(4);
I want to print, instead of parser(1), just 1. So I want to strip function calls (matching parser(.) I guess?), but leave the innards untouched. The output would, ideally, be
$bagel = 1;
$potato = 3+(other var);
$avocado = 3-(var1+var2+var3);
$untouchedtoast = donotremove(4);
I tried %s/parser(.)//g, but it only replaced everything to the left of the innards. Tried a few other wildcards, but I think I have to somehow pass a variable from the input regex to the output regex, and I'm not sure if that's possible. If it matters, I'm doing this in vim.
Thoughts?
%s/parser(\(.\+\));/\1;/
Search parser();, extract everything inside () using \(.\+\) group, replace the entire expression with the group (\1), add a semicolon (because it was eaten by the search expression).
Try this:
search: \w\(|\)(?=;)
replace: blank
I have a list of records that are character vectors. Here's an example:
'1mil_0,1_1_1_lb200_ks_drivers_sorted.csv'
'1mil_0_1_lb100_ks_drivers_sorted.csv'
'1mil_1_1_lb2_100_100_ks_drivers_sorted.csv'
'1mil_1_1_lb100_ks_drivers_sorted.csv'
From these names I would like to extract whatever's between the two substrings 1mil_ and _ks_drivers_sorted.csv.
So in this case the output would be:
0,1_1_1_lb200
0_1_lb100
1_1_lb2_100_100
1_1_lb100
I'm using MATLAB so I thought to use regexp to do this, but I can't understand what kind of regular expression would be correct.
Or are there some other ways to do this without using regexp?
Let the data be:
x = {'1mil_0,1_1_1_lb200_ks_drivers_sorted.csv'
'1mil_0_1_lb100_ks_drivers_sorted.csv'
'1mil_1_1_lb2_100_100_ks_drivers_sorted.csv'
'1mil_1_1_lb100_ks_drivers_sorted.csv'};
You can use lookbehind and lookahead to find the two limiting substrings, and match everything in between:
result = cellfun(#(c) regexp(c, '(?<=1mil_).*(?=_ks_drivers_sorted\.csv)', 'match'), x);
Or, since the regular expression only produces one match, the following simpler alternative can be used (thanks #excaza for noticing):
result = regexp(x, '(?<=1mil_).*(?=_ks_drivers_sorted\.csv)', 'match', 'once');
In your example, either of the above gives
result =
4×1 cell array
'0,1_1_1_lb200'
'0_1_lb100'
'1_1_lb2_100_100'
'1_1_lb100'
For me the easy way to do this is just use espace or nothing to replace what you don't need in your string, and the rest is what you need.
If is a list, you can use a loop to do this.
Exemple to replace "1mil_" with "" and "_ks_drivers_sorted.csv" with ""
newChr = strrep(chr,'1mil_','')
newChr = strrep(chr,'_ks_drivers_sorted.csv','')
First of all,sorry if the title is 'messed up' and you can't really understand if that well..i'm not that good with titles.
I'm trying to make a regex match (first time using complex regex),that replaces [ with { and ] with } but i have a problem.. my script is something like this
new asd[MAX_PLAYERS];
asd[player] = 1;
if(asd[player] >= 1)
other[player][index] = 1;
and i'm trying to only replace the variables that only have one match of [text],so that the code above will become
new asd{MAX_PLAYERS};
asd{player} = 1;
if(asd{player} >= 1)
other[player][index] = 1;
I tried using [[a-zA-Z_]*] but it matches everything that's in brackets,and it would of been good if my script wasn't 25k lines long.
I tried using [[a-zA-Z_]*] |[[a-zA-Z_]*]; which kinda works but not,because it still matches the [index]
And i also tried something to not match the lines that have ] in front of [ , but i failed horribly.
BTW - I'm using Notepad++
Lookarounds are one way to do it.
Pattern: (?<!\])\[(\w+)](?!\[)
Replacement: {$1}
Here is a robust solution that would work on regex101.com, but unsure if notepad++ can handle it.
/(?:\[[^]]+\]){2}\K|\[([^\]]+)\]/g
replace with {\1}
http://regex101.com/r/wE5mG5
I have a list of label names in a text file I'd like to manipulate using Find and Replace in Notepad++, they are listed as follows:
MyLabel_01
MyLabel_02
MyLabel_03
MyLabel_04
MyLabel_05
MyLabel_06
I want to rename them in Notepad++ to the following:
Label_A_One
Label_A_Two
Label_A_Three
Label_B_One
Label_B_Two
Label_B_Three
The Regex I'm using in the Notepad++'s replace dialog to capture the label name is the following:
((MyLabel_0)((1)|(2)|(3)|(4)|(5)|(6)))
I want to replace each capture group as follows:
\1 = Label_
\2 = A_One
\3 = A_Two
\4 = A_Three
\5 = B_One
\6 = B_Two
\7 = B_Three
My problem is that Notepad++ doesn't register the syntax of the regex above. When I hit Count in the Replace Dialog, it returns with 0 occurrences. Not sure what's misesing in the syntax. And yes I made sure the Regular Expression radio button is selected. Help is appreciated.
UPDATE:
Tried escaping the parenthesis, still didn't work:
\(\(MyLabel_0\)\((1\)|\(2\)|\(3\)|\(4\)|\(5\)|\(6\)\)\)
Ed's response has shown a working pattern since alternation isn't supported in Notepad++, however the rest of your problem can't be handled by regex alone. What you're trying to do isn't possible with a regex find/replace approach. Your desired result involves logical conditions which can't be expressed in regex. All you can do with the replace method is re-arrange items and refer to the captured items, but you can't tell it to use "A" for values 1-3, and "B" for 4-6. Furthermore, you can't assign placeholders like that. They are really capture groups that you are backreferencing.
To reach the results you've shown you would need to write a small program that would allow you to check the captured values and perform the appropriate replacements.
EDIT: here's an example of how to achieve this in C#
var numToWordMap = new Dictionary<int, string>();
numToWordMap[1] = "A_One";
numToWordMap[2] = "A_Two";
numToWordMap[3] = "A_Three";
numToWordMap[4] = "B_One";
numToWordMap[5] = "B_Two";
numToWordMap[6] = "B_Three";
string pattern = #"\bMyLabel_(\d+)\b";
string filePath = #"C:\temp.txt";
string[] contents = File.ReadAllLines(filePath);
for (int i = 0; i < contents.Length; i++)
{
contents[i] = Regex.Replace(contents[i], pattern,
m =>
{
int num = int.Parse(m.Groups[1].Value);
if (numToWordMap.ContainsKey(num))
{
return "Label_" + numToWordMap[num];
}
// key not found, use original value
return m.Value;
});
}
File.WriteAllLines(filePath, contents);
You should be able to use this easily. Perhaps you can download LINQPad or Visual C# Express to do so.
If your files are too large this might be an inefficient approach, in which case you could use a StreamReader and StreamWriter to read from the original file and write it to another, respectively.
Also be aware that my sample code writes back to the original file. For testing purposes you can change that path to another file so it isn't overwritten.
Bar bar bar - Notepad++ thinks you're a barbarian.
(obsolete - see update below.) No vertical bars in Notepad++ regex - sorry. I forget every few months, too!
Use [123456] instead.
Update: Sorry, I didn't read carefully enough; on top of the barhopping problem, #Ahmad's spot-on - you can't do a mapping replacement like that.
Update: Version 6 of Notepad++ changed the regular expression engine to a Perl-compatible one, which supports "|". AFAICT, if you have a version 5., auto-update won't update to 6. - you have to explicitly download it.
A regular expression search and replace for
MyLabel_((01)|(02)|(03)|(04)|(05)|(06))
with
Label_(?2A_One)(?3A_Two)(?4A_Three)(?5B_One)(?6B_Two)(?7B_Three)
works on Notepad 6.3.2
The outermost pair of brackets is for grouping, they limit the scope of the first alternation; not sure whether they could be omitted but including them makes the scope clear. The pattern searches for a fixed string followed by one of the two-digit pairs. (The leading zero could be factored out and placed in the fixed string.) Each digit pair is wrapped in round brackets so it is captured.
In the replacement expression, the clause (?4A_Three) says that if capture group 4 matched something then insert the text A_Three, otherwise insert nothing. Similarly for the other clauses. As the 6 alternatives are mutually exclusive only one will match. Thus only one of the (?...) clauses will have matched and so only one will insert text.
The easiest way to do this that I would recommend is to use AWK. If you're on Windows, look for the mingw32 precompiled binaries out there for free download (it'll be called gawk).
BEGIN {
FS = "_0";
a[1]="A_One";
a[2]="A_Two";
a[3]="A_Three";
a[4]="B_One";
a[5]="B_Two";
a[6]="B_Three";
}
{
printf("Label_%s\n", a[$2]);
}
Execute on Windows as follows:
C:\Users\Mydir>gawk -f test.awk awk.in
Label_A_One
Label_A_Two
Label_A_Three
Label_B_One
Label_B_Two
Label_B_Three
I have a string
IsNull(VSK1_DVal.RuntimeSUM,0),
I need to remove IsNull part, so the result would be
VSK1_DVal.RuntimeSUM,
I'm absolute new to RegEx, but it wouldn't be a problem, if not one thing :
VSK1 is dynamic part, can be any combination of A-Z,0-9 and any length. How to replace strings with RegEx? I use MSSQL 2k5, i think it uses general set of RegEx rules.
EDIT : I forgot to say, that I'm doing replacement in SSMS Query window's Replace Box (^H) - not building RegEx query
br
marius
here's a regex that should work:
[^(]+\(([^,]+),[^)]\)
Then use $1 capture group to extract the part that you need.
I did a sanity check in ruby:
orig = "IsNull(VSK1_DVal.RuntimeSUM,0),"
regex = /[^(]*\(([^,]+),[^)]\)/
result = orig.sub(regex){$1} # result => VSK1_DVal.RuntimeSUM,
It gets trickier if you have a prefix that you want to retain. Like if you have this:
"somestuff = IsNull(VSK1_DVal.RuntimeSUM,0),"
In this case, you need someway to identify the start of the pattern. Maybe you can use '=' to identify the start of the pattern? If so, this should work:
orig = "somestuff = IsNull(VSK1_DVal.RuntimeSUM,0),"
regex = /=\s*\w+\(([^,]+),[^)]\)/
result = orig.sub(regex){$1} # result => somestuff = VSK1_DVal.RuntimeSUM,
But then the case where you don't have an equals sign will fail. Maybe you can use 'IsNull' to identify the start of the pattern? If so, try this (note the '/i' representing case insensitive matching):
orig = "somestuff = isnull(VSK1_DVal.RuntimeSUM,0),"
regex = /IsNull\(([^,]+),[^)]\)/i
result = orig.sub(regex){$1} # result => somestuff = VSK1_DVal.RuntimeSUM,
/IsNULL\((A-Z0-9+),0\)/
Then pick group match number 1.
Here's a very useful site: http://www.regexlib.com/RETester.aspx
They have a tester and a cheatsheet that are very useful for quick testing of this sort.
I tested the solution by Dave and it works fine except it also removes the trailing comma you wanted retained. Minor thing to fix.
Try this:
IsNULL\((.*,)0\)
You say in your question
I use MSSQL 2k5, i think it uses
general set of RegEx rules.
This is not true unless you enable CLR and compile and install an assembly. You can use its native pattern matching syntax and LIKE for this as below.
WITH T(C) AS
(
SELECT 'IsNull(VSK1_DVal.RuntimeSUM,0),' UNION ALL
SELECT 'IsNull(VSK1_DVal.RuntimeSUM,123465),' UNION ALL
SELECT 'No Match'
)
SELECT SUBSTRING(C,8,1+LEN(C)-8-CHARINDEX(',',REVERSE(C),2))
FROM T
WHERE C LIKE 'IsNull(%,_%),'