I currently have a list of a few thousand elements each separated using the "|" character. Is there a way with sublime text to place each item on it's own line?
I have attempted to use the Regex find and replace with the parameters of
Find: |
Where: doc.txt
Replace: \n
For some reason that placed every character on a new line.
For example:
listItem1|newItem2|newItem3|newItem4|newItem5|newItem6
Had placed each letter on a new line, but I was intending for it to find the character and insert a carriage return. much like
listItem1
newitem2
newItem3
newItem4
newItem5
newItem6
Is there a simple way to accomplish this without using a plugin? I've seen some examples using plugins, but I would think there would be a way.
Select one | and press ALT + F3 on windows and linux, CMD + CTRL + G on mac to select all instances in the file, then hit Enter
To use \n in the replace field you need to activate regex.
You need to escape the pipe | character to use it in a regex search.
So activate regex find and replace and use these values:
FIND = \|
REPLACE = \n
That will achieve what you want to do.
I would like to find all lines that follow this format:
type="file_one_id"
type="file_two_id"
type="file_three_id"
And replace them with a single replacement line:
type="my_generic_replacement"
The problem is that there are many other lines which also start with type="file_ or end with _id" , so I'm thinking that searching for lines that both begin with type="file_ and end with _id" will be required. Is there a way to do this with notepad++?
You could search for ^type="file_.*_id"$ (using Regular Expressions) and replace with type="my_generic_replacement"
To replace the lines in Notepad++ you can use this regex:
type="file_\w+_id"
To open the window click Search => Replace
You can find and replace \r\n and tick Extended in the Replace box; \r\n matches carriage-return + line-feed.
Some systems may only have \r or only \n at the line breaks
I searched a lot, but nowhere is it written how to remove non-ASCII characters from Notepad++.
I need to know what command to write in find and replace (with picture it would be great).
If I want to make a white-list and bookmark all the ASCII words/lines so non-ASCII lines would be unmarked
If the file is quite large and can't select all the ASCII lines and just want to select the lines containing non-ASCII characters...
This expression will search for non-ASCII values:
[^\x00-\x7F]+
Tick off 'Search Mode = Regular expression', and click Find Next.
Source: Regex any ASCII character
In Notepad++, if you go to menu Search → Find characters in range → Non-ASCII Characters (128-255) you can then step through the document to each non-ASCII character.
Be sure to tick off "Wrap around" if you want to loop in the document for all non-ASCII characters.
In addition to the answer by ProGM, in case you see characters in boxes like NUL or ACK and want to get rid of them, those are ASCII control characters (0 to 31), you can find them with the following expression and remove them:
[\x00-\x1F]+
In order to remove all non-ASCII AND ASCII control characters, you should remove all characters matching this regex:
[^\x1F-\x7F]+
To remove all non-ASCII characters, you can use following replacement: [^\x00-\x7F]+
To highlight characters, I recommend using the Mark function in the search window: this highlights non-ASCII characters and put a bookmark in the lines containing one of them
If you want to highlight and put a bookmark on the ASCII characters instead, you can use the regex [\x00-\x7F] to do so.
Cheers
To keep new lines:
First select a character for new line... I used #.
Select replace option, extended.
input \n replace with #
Hit Replace All
Next:
Select Replace option Regular Expression.
Input this : [^\x20-\x7E]+
Keep Replace With Empty
Hit Replace All
Now, Select Replace option Extended and Replace # with \n
:) now, you have a clean ASCII file ;)
Another good trick is to go into UTF8 mode in your editor so that you can actually see these funny characters and delete them yourself.
Another way...
Install the Text FX plugin if you don't have it already
Go to the TextFX menu option -> zap all non printable characters to #. It will replace all invalid chars with 3 # symbols
Go to Find/Replace and look for ###. Replace it with a space.
This is nice if you can't remember the regex or don't care to look it up. But the regex mentioned by others is a nice solution as well.
Click on View/Show Symbol/Show All Character - to show the [SOH] characters in the file
Click on the [SOH] symbol in the file
CTRL=H to bring up the replace
Leave the 'Find What:' as is
Change the 'Replace with:' to the character of your choosing (comma,semicolon, other...)
Click 'Replace All'
Done and done!
In addition to Steffen Winkler:
[\x00-\x08\x0B-\x0C\x0E-\x1F]+
Ignores \r \n AND \t (carriage return, linefeed, tab)
I need to edit lines in a text file.
The text files contains more than 100 lines of data in the below format.
Cosmos Rh Us (Paperback) $10.99 Shipped:
The Good Earth (Paperback) $6.66 Shipped:
BEST OF D.H. LAWRENCE (Paperback) $7.89 Shipped:
...
These are excerpts from the online book shop I use to buy books
I have this data in a test editor. How do I edit it [Fine/Replace] such that the data becomes like this
$10.99
$6.66
$7.89
or better, without the dollar sign, since it'll be easy total it.
I use notepad++ as text editor.
Search for (don't forget to enable regular expressions in the replace box!)
^.*\$(\d+\.\d+).*$
and replace all with
\1
You could simply match full lines and capture all numbers after the $ sign:
Find what: ^[^$]*\$(\d+\.\d+).*$
Replace with: $1
Make sure that you don't check the ". matches newline" option. And note that this will behave unexpectedly if you have multiple $ signs in a line.
You might need to update to Notepad++ 6. Before that some regex features were not working properly.
Find:
((?<=\$)[\d\.]+)
Replace With:
\1 or $1 (whichever Notepad++ uses)
first regex will be replaced with nothing
[a-zA-Z0-9].*\)
second regex will be replaced with nothing
[a-zA-Z]+\:
How can I replace empty lines in Notepad++? I tried a find and replace with the empty lines in the find, and nothing in the replace, but it did not work; it probably needs regex.
There is now a built-in way to do this as of version 6.5.2
Edit -> Line Operations -> Remove Empty Lines or Remove Empty Lines (Containing Blank characters)
You need something like a regular expression.
You have to be in Extended mode
If you want all the lines to end up on a single line use \r\n. If you want to simply remove empty lines, use \n\r as #Link originally suggested.
Replace either expression with nothing.
There is a plugin that adds a menu entitled TextFX. This menu, which houses a dizzying array of quick text editing options, gives a person the ability to make quick coding changes. In this menu, you can find selections such as Drop Quotes, Delete Blank Lines as well as Unwrap and Rewrap Text
Do the following:
TextFX > TextFX Edit > Delete Blank Lines
TextFX > TextFX Edit > Delete Surplus Blank Lines
notepad++
Ctrl-H
Select Regular Expression
Enter ^[ \t]*$\r?\n into find what, leave replace empty. This will match all lines starting with white space and ending with carriage return (in this case a windows crlf)
Click the Find Next button to see for yourself how it matches only empty lines.
Press ctrl + h (Shortcut for replace).
In the Find what zone, type ^\R ( for exact empty lines) or ^\h*\R ( for empty lines with blanks, only).
Leave the Replace with zone empty.
Check the Wrap around option.
Select the Regular expression search mode.
Click on the Replace All button.
You can follow the technique as shown in the following screenshot:
Find what: ^\r\n
Replace with: keep this empty
Search Mode: Regular expression
Wrap around: selected
NOTE: for *nix files just find by \n
This worked for me:
Press ctrl + h (Shortcut for replace)
Write one of the following regex in find what box.
[\n\r]+$ or ^[\n\r]+
Leave Replace with box blank
In Search Mode, select Regex
Click on Replace All
Done!
In notepad++ press CTRL+H , in search mode click on the "Extended (\n, \r, \t ...)" radio button then type in the "Find what" box: \r\n (short for CR LF) and leave the "Replace with" box empty..
Finally hit replace all
Well I'm not sure about the regex or your situation..
How about CTRL+A, Select the TextFX menu -> TextFX Edit -> Delete Blank Lines and viola all blank line gone.
A side note - if the line is blank i.e. does not contain spaces, this will work
1) Ctrl + H ( Or Search 🠆 Replace..) to open Replace window.
2) Select 'Search Mode' 'Regular expression'
3) In 'Find What' type ^(\s*)(.*)(\s*)$ & in 'Replace With' type \2
^ - Matches start of line character
(\s*) - Matches empty space characters
(.*) - Matches any characters
(\s*) - Matches empty spaces characters
$ - Matches end of line character
\2 - Denotes the matching contend of the 2nd bracket
Refer https://www.rexegg.com/regex-quickstart.html for more on regex.
You can search for the following regex: ^(?:[\t ]*(?:\r?\n|\r))+ and replace it with empty field
Ctrl+H.
find - \r\r
replace with - \r.
This obviously does not work if the blank lines contain tabs or blanks. Many web pages (e.g. http://www.guardian.co.uk/) contain these white lines, as a result of a faulty HTML editor.
Remove white space using regular expression as follows:
change pattern: [\t ]+$
into nothing.
where [\t ] matches either tab or space. '+' matches one or more occurrences, and '$' marks the end of line.
Then use notepad++/textFX to remove single or extra empty lines.
Be sure that these blank lines are not significant in the given context.
Edit >> Blank Operations >> Trim Leading and Trailing Spaces (to remove black tabs and spaces in empty lines)
Ctrl + H to get replace window and replace pattern: ^\r\n with nothing (select regular expression)
Note: step 1 will remove your code intendation done via tabs and blank spaces
Sometimes \n\r etc not work, here to figure it out, what your actually regular expression should be.
Advantage of this trick: If you want to replace in multiple file at once, you must need this method. Above will not work...
CTRL+A, Select the TextFX menu -> TextFX Edit -> Delete Blank Lines as suggested above works.
But if lines contains some space, then move the cursor to that line and do a CTRL + H. The "Find what:" sec will show the blank space and in the "Replace with" section, leave it blank.
Now all the spaces are removed and now try CTRL+A, Select the TextFX menu -> TextFX Edit -> Delete Blank Lines
/n/r assumes a specific type of line break. To target any blank line you could also use:
^$
This says - any line that begins and then ends with nothing between. This is more of a catch-all. Replace with the same empty string.
I did not see the combined one as answer, so search for ^\s+$ and replace by {nothing}
^\s+$ means
^ start of line
\s+ Matches minimum one whitespace character (spaces, tabs, line breaks)
$ until end of line
This pattern is tested in Notepad++ v8.1.1
It replaces all spaces/tabs/blank lines before and after each row of text.
It shouldn't mess with anything in the middle of the text.
Find: ^(\s|\t)+|(\s|\t)+$
Replace: leave this blank
Before:
_____________________________________
\tWORD\r\n
\r\n
\tWORD\s\tWORD\s\t\r\n
\r\n
\r\n
WORD\s\s\tWORD\t\sWORD\s\r\n
\t\r\n
\s\s\s\r\n
WORD\s\sWORD\s\s\t\r\n
____________________________________
After:
_____________________________________
WORD\r\n
WORD\s\tWORD\r\n
WORD\s\s\tWORD\t\sWORD\r\n
WORD\s\sWORD
_____________________________________
A few of the above expressions and extended expressions did not work for me, but the regular expression "$\n$" did.
An easy alternative for removing white space from empty lines:
TextFX>TextFX Edit> Trim Trailing Spaces
This will remove all trailing spaces, including trailing spaces in blank lines.
Make sure, no trailing spaces are significant.
this work for me:
SEARCH:^\r
REPLACE: (empty)