Questions tagged [notepad++]
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.
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Remove all lines that contain html tag </title>, on the condition that</title> is after line 5 of the file [closed]
Remove all lines that contain html tag , on the condition that is after line 5 of the file.
<title>I love my home</title>
<meta name="description" content="Blah blah"...
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Windows 11: Issues with opening a text file containing accented characters
I'm having some issues in the way in Windows 11 Pro is handling text files. I live in a two language environment - English and French.
For several years I have been using a number of Excel VBA macros ...
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Notepad++ Recording a Macro with searches in it
I'm using Notepad++ to edit a calendar ".ics" file.
I've used simply macros before but can't get this one to work.
I need to find the text "cancelled", then go back 6 rows (ok so ...
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How to mark/delete lines that contain anything that is not letters or numbers after a specific string? [closed]
how can i mark/delete lines that contain anything that is not letters or numbers after the delimiter :
I tried :[^a-z0-9]+$ but it doesn't work
Example:
[email protected]:linetest
[email protected]:line&...
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Overriding The Notepad++ File Size Limit
I had a text file I was working with in Notepad++, which I accidentally closed and now I can't open it again because it says "File is too big to be opened by Notepad++".
I was editing it ...
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How do I find and delete a string at end of a line?
I have lines with this kind of data:
SEQ 338 13 OPS POSN 1 THRU 10 LANG KO 3 MO TU WE TH FR SA SU
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SEQ 339 6 OPS POSN 1 ...
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How to save Notepad++ Compare plugin settings?
I would like to save the color settings of the Compare plugin in Notepad++.
The following example shows the problem.
It happens only on a pc (at work) where I'm not the administrator.
I have no ...
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When I try to complete the process of "How to delete all text except for what's inside quotation marks?" nothing occurs and no edits were made?
How to delete all text except for what's inside quotation marks?" nothing occurs and no edits were made?
This is what I did:
Ctrl+H
Find what: (?:^|\G)[^“”]*(“[^”]*”)
Replace with: $1 (Note: ...
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If the Account has Expired, Delete the Account Details
What regular expression would I need to delete all the expired accounts.
Name: John Smith
Address: 123 Sample Road
Country: England
Membership Expires: January 26, 2023, 9:35 am -288 Days
Plan: ...
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Notepad++ writes a lot to disk after closing
I decided to open the disk usage statistics in Resource Monitor, and discovered that after closing notepad++.exe, even if there were no files open, a large write to the disk occurs. In the first ...
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Extract text between the Tags
I am trying to extract Arabic text between the two tags. Here its <Content>some text in arabic</Content>
Sample Text:
<idPkg:Story xmlns:idPkg="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeInDesign/...
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For eliminate the lines with Duplicate URLs at the beginning of the line
Before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven 2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
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Notepad++ replace dash between two random letters without spaces?
I need to replace some CSS classes from dash to underscore (- to _)
Example:
.a-2Vndt-.wrapper-1VLyxH, .people-u6dGxF.active-2UF8Zh, .ListItem-u6dGxF:hover, .ListItem-u6dGxF { }
As you can see, the ...
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RegEx Notepad++ Search and Extract
I am looking for the RegEx search string to extract a specific entry in a single row.
Example is
{"version":"264599-1-0","exportPath":"Site Management/Site Set-up/...
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Search Files of Notepad++ and remove char
I am attempting to use Notepad++ to remove underscores from the end of text names in both the file name and file itself of a GUI.
The underscores were erroneously added to fulfill an 8-char minimum ...
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Replace blocks of numbers: </2645>
I have a file in Notepad++ that was converted from a PDF.
I've managed to sanitise loads of nasty glitches with regex but this one escapes me.
Blocks of numbers like these:
</2478><2479>
&...
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Delete all except matched items
I want to delete all the data except matched items from my file. I am using Notepad++
I want to keep everything between <w:t> and </w:t> tags delete rest of the matter.
Sample data:
<?...
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Notepad++ search result window does not respond on keyboard commands
As you might know, the keyboard shortcut ALT+SPACE opens a popup menu, which you can use to move, minimise or maximise the window you're working with.
Using this popup menu on Notepad++ in general is ...
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How to remove duplicated text on every line using Notepad++?
I want to remove duplicated words in each line using Notepad++.
Example:
Flooring Services, Carpet, Flooring Services, Tile, Flooring Services
In the above, Flooring Services is repeated 3x. I only ...
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Notepad++ indent isn't as it appears
Often the indent I see visually differs from what happens if I copy-paste the text to anywhere else. In such cases, backspacing the indentation in N++ deletes more than one whitespace. I'm unsure how ...
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Notepad++ define line-break (word wrap) rules
When in Notepad++ word wrap is enabled, long lines are broken according to some of the following rules:
After a whitespace character
Before a forward slash
Otherwise, if necessary, in the middle of ...
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Notepad++: where I can get the NPPExec plugin for Windows?
When I Google "NppExec plugin", the first page is this, but no dll found. Should I compile it starting from these files?
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Select all lines of maximum 12 words that end that do not have any punctuation at the end
I want to select all lines of maximum 12 words that end that do not have any punctuation at the end.
Example:
Love's Equal On Earth
In a moving "in" and "out of focus" image, what ...
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Notepad++ doesn't open .TXT files automatically. File association is set in Windows 10
In Windows 10 I have the .TXT file extension set to be opened by NotePad++. I also have the Command Line processor SETPATHEXT set to .TXT. If I invoke NotePad++ and select a .txt file from the Open ...
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insert a space in line after notepad++
i've this url
https://www.mirrored.to/files/12345678/abcdefgh
and I need to change this replace the / with space before the a alphabet 2 Space
https://www.mirrored.to/files/12345678 abcdefgh
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How to set caps lock as default in Notepadd ++
Is there any way I can set caps lock to default on Notepad++? I am doing some data entry/notes and I prefer to have everything I write down capitalized. I constantly click the caps lock button between ...
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Notepad++ How do I remove a break and join 2 lines together?
My chat log has unnecessarily added a line break between timestamp and usernames / messages. Not sure if this is to be fixed in "Find & Replace" or "Line Operations".
Basically ...
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How to isolate portion of string and remove excess in Notepad++ using regex?
I am attempting to isolate a particular section of a line, and delete everything else after it.
Below are some example strings on what the general formatting of the file looks like. Each one of these ...
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Notepad++ find and replace using wild card
I have this very long file with many lines like this:
MeshFile=brosm05028.gmt CollTarget=True HATTarget=True LODOut=(500.0)
What I am trying to do is to use notepad++ find and replace to set the ...
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Unable to find Refresh button in Notepad++
I am new to Notepad++ and beginner in coding.
I am using NP++ v8.5.4 (32-bit).
My device:Windows 10. System:64-bit operating system.
I am having difficulties:
I want to have 2-screens side-by-side.
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Notepad++ CS Script loop through lines and change particular values
I haven’t used CS Script with Notepad++ before but I am working on several large files where I need to create a script.
I normally work in excel and use VBasic but the files are too big for excel.
I ...
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How to copy upto a particular character(including that character) in every line using Notepad ++
I have a text file with about 10000 lines of text. The text file is in JSON format. I want to cut (& keep in clipboard) the data found after the ':' colon symbol.
{
"Cust_Data": {
"...
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can i add Run button to Notepad++?
I'm using Notepad++ as a Python editor, i need to add a (Run) hotkey to the program interface in order to execute the script directly .
I would prefer to add a Run key or button to the Notepad++ ...
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Combine two regex formulas into one (using notepad++)
Si cum îi semănau ! Fraţi buni, puindu-si, ca si el, tot sufletul
în ceea ce făceau, muncind din greu, luptind din greu, jert-
findu-se, fără nici un gînd de răsplată.
Simțind în tot ceasul,
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Missing gaps between menu items in Notepad++
I have noticed that gaps between different options in Notepad++ menu have disappeared.
Help me please to find out what's wrong.
Here are screens:
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how to split one string into multiple rows (by every eight chracter)? [duplicate]
i have some data below, could there be anyway to split this all string data into multiple rows, each row with 8 characters. Appreciates ur help. ^^"
Raw data:
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Find and replace Any digit followed by tab followed by any digit, keeping both digits just replacing the tab character
Using notepad++ or microsoft word:
I need to find a digit followed by "tab" and followed by another digit, just replace the tab by EOL.
example:
$5,974.89 \t 776
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Show Tree View in notepad++ when used in WinPE
How to use notepad++ in WinPE and show the tree view.
When using notepad++ in WinPE (64bit version) it doesn't show the tree view. Neither it shows the open dialog.
Also other programms like e.g. ...
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Regex: select the html class that does not contain the word
I want to find all the files in which there is no class like that contains the word "neculaifantaru"
I have these 2 html same classes:
<p class="mb-40px">I must go home, but ...
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Open VS Code from Notepad++
I use both Notepad++ and VS Code, and for easy switching between the two, I have set up a Run command in Notepad++ to start VS Code with the current file, and caret position:
code -g $(...
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Find and replace using wildcards without changing the wildcard in Notepad++
I am trying to replace the following pattern
A<marker>
B<marker>
C<marker>
etc. with
<marker>A
<marker>B
<marker>C
A,B,C etc. stand for single, non-alphanumeric ...
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Replace All within a Regex Search
I'm not really good with Regular expression, but I'm trying to run a "Replace All" on a conditional regular expression search.
In my regex search (results(.*)continue), I'm trying to find ...
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What's the shortcut to move to other view in Notepad++?
I'm trying to split-view in Notepad++ with Windows 10.
I use the mouse's right click to split the view, but I'm looking for the shortcut to do the same task but I didn't find it.
What is the shortcut ...
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Notepad++ Filter by Content
I have several text files with different titles and I need:
1 - filter only files whose content contains "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-9xjaJAaks";
2 - in the filtered files replace all ...
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Notepad++ 1) Seperate numbers into blocks of 5 2) Add a hyphen after 5 characters and 3) replace specific numbers with x's [closed]
I have a three-part question about using Notepad++ to alter sets of numbers.
I have blocks of numbers as follows:
1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510
5820974944 5923078164 ...
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Notepad++ How to replace every 11th character (25 characters per line) with a #
I have a set of data - 25 characters long per line by a couple of hundred lines.
Each line / set of 25 characters per line consists of Numbers and Letters (both upper and lowercase)
I want to replace ...
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REGEXL Find the string betweet 2 strings
In the exemple below, I want to use regex as to find the html tag <sony> between other 2 lines.
<table width="697" border="0">
<tr>
<td&...
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Regex: why does this connection formula ([\s\S]*?) not work?
I have this line in my html page.
<h3 class="font-weight-normal" itemprop="name"><a href="javascript:void(0)" class="color-black">I LOVE PRINCE&...
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How to prevent notepad++ from replacing < and > with < and >
I have just updated notepad++ win64 to version 8.5..
When I type < or > into html files, notepad++ is replacing those characters with < and >
For example, when I type <b>, ...
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Regex: Delete all html tags inside 2 other tags, except <a href=.*?"> and </a>
I want to delete all html tags inside 2 other tags, except <a href=.*?"> and </a>
For example:
<p class="mb-40px">Another blending </h2>option is to all the <...
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