I have a file containing (hundreds) of blocks of numbers like below;
This one is fine (16x20, correct number of rows and columns)
11111111111111111110
16666616666666661110
16111616111111162610
16111646111663132610
16162616261623132610
16162313261623132610
16162313261623132610
16162313261623132610
16162313261623132610
16162313261623132610
16162313261623132610
16162313261626132610
16166313661116632610
16111111111116132610
16666666666666136610
11111111111111111110
This one needs to be padded with trailing zeroes so it is (16x20)
111111111111111111
166616666666663661
166611111111111661
166666366663661661
113161111111161611
1316166666616161
1616162262616161
11616166112616161
16616166116616161
16616162262616161
16616166266616161
16616111161116161
1661666666666616111
1661666166163366661
1641666166166613661
1111111111111111111
I would like to pad them with zeroes so they are all like the first example. I'm aware of the regular expressions feature in notepad++ but am struggling to get it to work. I appreciate any help given.
You could do it via a macro.
First append a large number of zeroes to the end of each line using a macro.
Caret on the first entry
click record macro
press end
type out 20 zeroes
press down arrow
click stop recording
play the macro until all lines look like this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...
Caret on first line
click record
press home key
press the right arrow key 20 times
hold shift and press end key
press delete key
press down arrow
click stop recording
play the macro until all lines are processed
You could save the entire process as a single macro so its just a single click in the future.
I can give you a macro solution
go to the beginning of your text
select Macro/Start Recording
press end, press 0 16 times then press Home and down arrow key
select Macro/End Recording
You now have a macro to add sixteen zeros to the end of all lines.
Playback this macro on all lines.
You now have appended zeroes to all lines.
Pressing Alt key and using mouse select the required block(columns) of text you want and paste it into another empty notepad tab
help on column mode editing is there inside notepad ? / help contents menu
Good luck
You can use the plugin ConyEdit to do this.
With ConyEdit running in the background, follow these steps:
use the command line cc.aal 00000000000000000000 to append after lines with twenty zero character.
use the command line cc.gc 1/\d{20}/ to get the first column of regex match.
Looking to do this manualy and not progomaticly ?
Open Findreplace
Copy from the last to rhe first WITHOUT NUMBERS on a line so...
in this example
111111111111111111 <---from here
to here ---> 166616666666663661
166611111111111661
paste that into the fine ( yes your effecticly copying the return wich some applications allow you to manualy input others wont )
then in the replace box, type '0' then your return
Hit that magic replace all :D
This will then add a 0 every time it hits a new line, then add a new... new line....
edit : quickly reviewing another method a second to recover for alternate options :P give me 10
edit 2:
Ah ok somthing like this will work :P just tested it.
use [0-9] in the find replace. so if im looking for 123123123123 ( wich is 12 long ) and i need to buff i up to 20,
Your FIND must be in ()
so..
the find would be
([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] )
and the replace is referd to as \1 no the regex, this was my mistake
\100000000
tested and confirmed !dont forget YOU NEED MATCH ALL on, WRAP off!
And so on for your other numbers, Not sure if you can loop this with macros nd stuff :P but hope it helps more than you have now
two good resources.
http://blog.creativeitp.com/posts-and-articles/editors/understanding-regex-with-notepad/comment-page-1/
http://regexpal.com/
base on OP's comment: you could try an editor called vim/gvim
open your file in vim, then type:
:%s/.*/\=printf("%-20s",getline("."))/|%s/ *$/\=substitute(submatch(0)," ","0","g")/
don't forget pressing <Enter> after the above typing.
then you will see the text has been changed into what you want.
of course vim macro can work as well, however, I feel command better... :)
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In sublime 3.2.2 I need to copy and paste multiple selection to end of each line. What I did was Edit>replace, enter find term using regex, press alt+enter, press Ctrl +c, press key end, press Ctrl+v. Now what happens is like below,
1.a (a) here
2. a (b) here
regex find is \(\w\)
I get like,
1.a (a) here
(a)
(b)
2. a (b) here
(a)
(b)
Insted of
1.a (a) here(a)
2. a (b) here(b)
I tried for small number of lines it worked, But when having five thousands like it give results as not desired. Same problem in my visual studio code also.
You can do this with a regex search and replace in Sublime, assuming that you'll only have at most one match per line. Select Find → Replace…, make sure the Regex (*) button is selected, and enter (per your example) (\(\w\))(.*) in the Search field. This creates two capture groups - the desired letter surrounded by parens, and the rest of the line after the close paren.
In the Replace field, put \1\2\1. Hit Replace All (CtrlAltEnter) and you should be good to go.
Alternatively, you can try this: Use your original regex and Find All, hit CtrlC to copy, then End. Then, before you paste, hit CtrlShiftL) to split the selection into lines. Now you can hit CtrlV and it should paste how you want.
I have the following line in a file I'm editing in VSCode:
...............111.........111.............111..
I want to replace all .s with 0s. However, when I highlight the line and do a find/replace for .s, all the .s in the document are replaced, not just the ones in the line I've select, even when I toggle the "Find in selection" button. Is this a bug? In other editors, if I select a chunk of text and then do a find/replace, it will only find/replace matches within the selected block.
Below is a snippet that you should be able to reproduce the issue with. The ...............111.........111.............111.. line is inside the test_unicode function.
def test_simple2(self):
"""Simple CSV transduction test with empty fields, more complex idx, different pack_size.
100011000001000 ->
..........111....................111..........11111..........111..
"""
field_width_stream = pablo.BitStream(int('1000110001000001000', 2))
idx_marker_stream = pablo.BitStream(int('11101', 2))
pack_size = 4
target_format = TransductionTarget.JSON
csv_column_names = ["col1", "col2", "col3", "col4", "col5"]
pdep_marker_stream = pablo.BitStream(generate_pdep_stream(field_width_stream,
idx_marker_stream,
pack_size, target_format,
csv_column_names))
self.assertEqual(pdep_marker_stream.value, 63050402300395548)
def test_unicode(self):
"""Non-ascii column names.
Using UTF8. Hard coded SON boilerplate byte size should remain the same, column name
boilerplate bytes should expand.
100010010000000 ->
2 + 4 + 9 2 + 4 + 6 2 + 4 + 7
...............111.........111.............111..
"""
field_width_stream = pablo.BitStream(int('100010001000', 2))
idx_marker_stream = pablo.BitStream(1)
pack_size = 64
target_format = TransductionTarget.JSON
csv_column_names = ["한국어", "中文", "English"]
pdep_marker_stream = pablo.BitStream(generate_pdep_stream(field_width_stream,
idx_marker_stream,
pack_size, target_format,
csv_column_names))
self.assertEqual(pdep_marker_stream.value, 1879277596)
I'm using VSCode 1.12.2 in Ubuntu 16.04.
I was able to get it to work but the workflow is poor:
control + H to open Find/Replace
Select your line of text
Click the "Find in selection" icon to the right Alt L or ⎇ ⌘ L on macOS)
Enter your find and replace characters in their inputs
Click the Replace all icon
It works but you have to go through the workflow all over again for each new selection (except for CTR + H of course). BTW I have the exact same behavior in Sublime Text.
Could you go with a regExp to find your lines? Do they contain only .'s and 1's?
This is a more general answer for other users who come here just wanting to use basic find and replace functionality.
On Mac you can press Command + Option + F to open Find and Replace:
Alternatively, you can press Command + F to open Find and then click the little triangle on the left to show the Replace field:
From the VSCode devs:
We used to enable find in selection automatically when opening the
find widget with a selection, but it was too easy to trigger
accidentally and produced a lot of complaints. You probably want to
set "editor.find.autoFindInSelection": true which will make it work
the way you expect.
The VSCode GitHub issue has more details if anyone is interested.
EDIT: The autoFindInSelection option is available starting from VSCode 1.13. That version is currently in development (as of 6/7/2017), so this fix won't work until the new version is released.
I found the following workflow to be fairly painless:
Select text region with mouse or keyboard.
Ctrl+H to toggle find and replace
Alt+L to toggle find in selection
Ctrl+Alt+Enter to replace all (or enter to replace individually)
Since sometimes we might have similarly named things so you don't want to select everything, one of my favorites shortcut sequences is to select the next occurrence:
Use shift and arrows to highlight the term you want to match.
Use Ctrl + d to highlight the next occurrence of the term.
The Basic Editing in VS Code documentation page has some extremely useful variations on find and replace. One extremely useful shortcut is the Column (Box) Selection.
Just ran into this, my solution was to do
command + N to create a new file
paste my selection in there
do my find and replace operations on that while file
copy result back on top of my original selection
On Mac:
Select the text
Press command + shift + L
For mac
Press command + option + f to bring up this menu:
Press the little icon that has the arrow pointing at it above (3 horizontal bars)
Select the text you want to do a find and replace in, and enter the 'find' and 'replace' fields
Press this icon:
That's all!
In 2022, there's a bug to be wary of 🐛
There is a silent bug (I'll add more about this as I learn more about it). But sometimes find and replace within selection doesn't find the values, even if you can see them with your own eyes. This is dangerous because you could think you've replaced them all but it really hasn't.
So do these two things:
a visual check after doing a find and replace (to make sure it worked)
if vscode completely ignores you (and doesn't do the find and replace within selection after you've followed the above instructions), close the find and replace box by pressing the "x" in the corner, and retry the sequence of steps (it worked for me after closing and retrying).
Okay, this is really dumb, at first I felt really stupid when I finally found this, then I realized its just VS Code which has a bad interface.
The key is, there are TWO TOOLS here,
Search/Replace (the pane on the left at the top of the Explorer) and Find/Replace (which is a dialogue which opens when you press CTRL-F)
THESE ARE NOT THE SAME TOOL!!
SEARCH-REPLACE is a tool written for project-wide searches and
changes
FIND-REPLACE is a small dialogue best suited for more
surgical editing.
i.e. you should use FIND-REPLACE!
find replace window image with find-in-selection highlighted
Also, its SUPER IMPORTANT to follow these steps in the right order, or it doesn't give the expected results.
Press CTRL-F to open the find dialogue (usually opens in the top right)
press the little arrow to the right of the find field which opens the replace input field
ensure "find in selection" is turned off (i.e. not highlighted)
type in the fields the strings you want to search/replace
select the text you want to do a search/replace within.
Now press "find in selection" (or type ALT-L)
You should see only highlighting in the area you previously selected.
Now you can click either "replace all" (CTRL-ALT-ENTER) or line-by-line "replace" (ENTER)
I hope this helps.
My suggestion to VSC developers, there should be a refresh button so that after you have selected the area of interest, and you already have your find and replace strings defined, you can select a new region and click "refresh find" instead of needing to repeat steps 3 to 8.
For those where it still does not work, there is one step omitted in all of the above answers: Uncheck "Find in selection" if it is checked (which it probably is when you are struggling with it and in despair googled the problem, and then found this SO entry). Only then select the lines and then re-check "Find in selection".
For Ubuntu, highlight the lines where you want to make changes, press alt-L and then ctrl-H. Then type the name you want to replace and replacement name in the top right dropdown.
Or some combination of these actions depending on whether the dropdown is already open or you're already in alt-L mode. I'm still learning but thought I'd share what's working.
I am struggling hard on this one.
I need to parse a portion of rtf1 document to rtf2 document. Here is the basic approach:
1) Open rtf1 in notepad and find the unique start point(line) and end point(line).
2) Copy portion from point start point to end point and insert it in rtf2 document.
I know how to insert the portion in rtf2 document but couldn't figure out how to extract the portion. The portion that needs to be copied is lengthy so I have to find a way to input start point and end point so I can use those two reference points to extract anything that falls in between.
Thank you in advance for your valuable input.
Zora
Find startPoint.*?endPoint using Regular expression -search mode with . matches newline enabled. Then copy selected text to clipoard.
.*? basically means "match any character until end point is found".
Remember to escape any special characters when defining the start- and endpoints.
|.......before.......|....portion-to-copy....|.....after..........|
If I need to perform such a task, I use simple method (in Notepad, Notepad++) - you can try it, too:
With text cursor at start point, you can press Ctrl+Shift+Home and then Delete. This deletes all content before your portion. (Do not save the file.)
With text cursor at end point, you can press Ctrl+Shift+End and then Delete. This deletes all content after your portion. (Do not save the file.)
Now you have only your portion. Press Ctrl+A (select all), then Ctrl+C to copy it into the clipboard. In SAS: Press Ctrl+Home, then press Ctrl+Shift+End. Then press Ctrl+C.
Paste your portion where you need.
Close your original document (used in steps 1-3) without saving.
I'm moving to Dreamweaver from Notepad++, and while Dw does have many better features than Notepad++, there are a few that I'm really missing.
Is there a way to make the "Home" key on the keyboard take you to the front of where the code starts, instead of the very front of the line? In Notepad++ this is how it works by default, and I don't know why anyone would want to go to the very front of the line instead of the front of the code. I use tabbing to keep it more organized, so this feature is really important to me.
How do I duplicate a line in Dw? In Notepad++ I can select the line and press ctrl + d and it automatically duplicated the code. This is awesome for something like a gallery or a table where I don't want to have to type out every line because it's so similar.
Less important, as I don't use this that often, but can you vertically select in Dw? In Notepad++ you can hold down alt and select lines vertically. Ex:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12147973/vert-select.jpg
Thanks in advance.
For #2, check out the Code Extras extension for Dreamweaver
No Longer works in DW5.5; Try here - http://yoropan.com/en/archives/544
I was also wanting some of this features... I discovered that, at least in CS6, #2 is already in Dreamweaver, but the shortcut is Ctrl+Alt+Down ou Up, depending on the direction that you wanna duplicate the code.
Note that I had to disable the shortcut that turns your screen view for that to work. (It's an intel default, press Ctrl+Alt+f12 to open the options)
And tãa dãaa... IT WORKS! :D
I want to say one thing different. My Dreamweaver theme (Users who use Dreamweaver after use Notepad++). Download Dreamweaver.xml
"Dreamweaver.xml" file is in here for windows: C:\Program Files\Notepad++\themes\Dreamweaver.xml
The answer to #1 = Ctrl+Home in anything in windows will take you to the absolute start of the documents, same as Ctrl+End, Home and End to start and finish of lines, Ctrl+Left or Right arrow to jump entire words...
I too am on the quest for duplicating lines in DW. #3 your image no longer shows.
If I want to duplicated a line I click on the line number, then CTRL+C to copy and CTRL+V to paste. Is that what you're looking for or am I being simple?
Is there a way to autoindent or a shortcut to insert a select number of spaces as a tab in the SAS Progam Editor on Unix?
I'm used to using the enhanced editor on PC and this is the only part of the switch that I can't find the answer to.
On the line numbers to the left of the code in the program editor, enter the >># command (replace # with a number) to indent '#' spaces to the right and <<# for shifting to the left. Enter these commands on the starting line and ending line. All rows inclusive between them will shift.
For a single line, ># or <#.
Without trying to start a flame-war... have you and your team considered NOT using the tab key in code? This way code always appears consistent regardless of editor/tab settings. Especially handy when you use a combination of vi/EG/SAS editor/notepad etc... I've worked at places that do this and it works great once you get everyone to agree to it.
When you open up existing code with tabs, just figure out how many spaces the tab is supposed to represent and do a search/replace.
It's still as fast to navigate quickly when you use, ctrl-left/ctrl-right in windows editors (and unix eds if setup that way), or 'w' and 'b' to jump to the next/previous word when using vi.
Cheers
Rob