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Find lowest matching string and insert line below

Last post by XJAC « Mon Sep 24, 2018 7:57 am
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by XJAC » Fri Sep 14, 2018 3:41 pm

Hi,

I'm searching for a way/ or how can I build an expression to do something like this.
The file contains numerious lines with a specific string in...

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Last post by XJAC
Mon Sep 24, 2018 7:57 am
Simplified Multi-Line Replace [Replace/Remove Multiple unique Lines from Hosts File]

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:54 am
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by usaer101 » Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:19 am

I have a hosts file that is over run with too many entries most of which I don’t want and some which I do. I have another hosts files containing only...

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:54 am
Help finding a specific value

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Sat May 19, 2018 7:40 pm
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by RJ » Thu May 17, 2018 2:56 am

Let's say you have a huge list of text you need to figure out phrase from. You have part of a phrase Digi**lV*lc*no but you don't know what's inside...

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Sat May 19, 2018 7:40 pm
Multiple lines

Last post by Enigma « Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:30 am
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by Enigma » Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:59 am

Is it possible to search 3 lines and change them to 2?
E.g.:
1 test
2 again
2 ok
to
3 bla
4 bla

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Last post by Enigma
Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:30 am
searching multiple words

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Thu Jan 25, 2018 11:39 am
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by FredSmith » Thu Aug 17, 2017 2:10 pm

Hi all,
I'd like search for multiple words.
So if I have 3 files:
File1
One

File2
One
...
Two

File3
One
...
Two
Three

And would like to...

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Thu Jan 25, 2018 11:39 am
Delete all on line AFTER specified text is found

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Mon Jun 19, 2017 12:40 pm
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by schnarkle » Mon Jun 05, 2017 10:52 pm

Hello,

I'd like to clean up a weather page on a daily basis to go from this:

Billings, MT;93;62;80;53;Not as warm;NNE;10;44%;20%;8
Birmingham,...

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Mon Jun 19, 2017 12:40 pm
Deleting varying text between two fixed tags

Last post by regex « Thu Mar 30, 2017 6:17 pm
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by regex » Thu Mar 30, 2017 2:32 am

Hi,

I have this on one line:
South-West High

I want to keep the h3 tags, and replace the text between them, with:
Summer Clases. The text varies...

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Last post by regex
Thu Mar 30, 2017 6:17 pm
Matching beginning of line

Last post by ebulerdo « Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:38 pm
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by ebulerdo » Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:46 am

Hello!

I am trying to write a regex that deletes all lines that do not begin with an HTML tag. In my text editor (Editpad) I would write it like...

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Last post by ebulerdo
Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:38 pm
help with regular expression

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Sat Dec 17, 2016 5:04 pm
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by fgiorgio » Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:00 pm

Hello
I would like to find aand replace exactly the number on each row.
For example
9 must be replaced by 500
59 must be replaced by 501
599 must be...

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Sat Dec 17, 2016 5:04 pm
Replace file name with text from same file.

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Fri Oct 21, 2016 10:04 am
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by Coshette » Wed Oct 19, 2016 9:33 pm

I have about 3000 html files that I would like to rename to the file title .

I can find the file name within the file with a Reg Ex: search pattern,...

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Fri Oct 21, 2016 10:04 am
How do you remove leading spaces from multiple lines?

Last post by irish003 « Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:44 pm
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by irish003 » Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:09 am

I need the RegEx expression for removing leading spaces on each line for many different files . I have tried many different expressions, but none...

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Last post by irish003
Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:44 pm
another "seems to work in Notepad++ but not here"

Last post by schnarkle « Thu Aug 18, 2016 10:45 pm
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by schnarkle » Thu Aug 18, 2016 2:44 am

Hello,

on the following text I can search and replace using the below regex but it does no replacement in Textcrawler Pro:

@M_DeathNoticeHed:Alex...

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Last post by schnarkle
Thu Aug 18, 2016 10:45 pm
Regex that works only with GrepWin or Notepad++

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:27 pm
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by me_suzy » Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:43 am

hello. I like very much TextCrawler, but when I do change on files, some regex doesn't work here. But works very well with GrepWin or Notepad++.

Two...

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:27 pm
Regex - Select the first line on file

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:22 pm
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by me_suzy » Thu Jul 14, 2016 12:32 pm

hi. I am wondering, how to select the first line on file ?

This will select the last line ^(.*)$\z

But the first line?

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:22 pm
Delete x lines, then stop

Last post by rossnixon « Thu Jul 14, 2016 9:49 pm
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by rossnixon » Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:07 am

I have text files which I want to remove the first 9 lines from.
I have not been able to work out the syntax. Using Windows, so need to remove the...

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Last post by rossnixon
Thu Jul 14, 2016 9:49 pm
Mark duplicates not in any subfolder

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Tue May 03, 2016 11:06 am
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by dvanon » Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:36 pm

How do I mark for deletion those files in C:\Users\username\Documents\ that are also found in any of the subfolders in...

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Tue May 03, 2016 11:06 am
Delete Form code inside HTML

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:26 pm
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by funbird » Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:25 pm

Hi guys,

I despair.

I have to delete same FORM code in nearly 500 HTML files.

Example

.
.

.
.

.
.

The difficulty is only...

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:26 pm
Remove everything except regex

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:16 pm
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by dave88 » Sun Nov 15, 2015 8:18 pm

How do i remove everything except the regex?
Im using the e-mail regex \b +@ +\. {2,4}\b and i wanna keep only the e-mails and discard the rest.

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:16 pm
find number and add valie

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Tue Nov 10, 2015 11:10 am
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by thunderboldt » Thu Nov 05, 2015 10:14 pm

I have a text file with numbers like PR1000 PR1001 etc. I would like to find them and add 720. Is that possible?
I search for PR( {4}) and find them....

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Tue Nov 10, 2015 11:10 am
Find 2 uses of <tagA>, without <tagB> between them

Last post by my99 « Tue Sep 01, 2015 2:15 pm
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by my99 » Wed Apr 01, 2015 2:10 pm

Hi,

Some SGML files use revision tagging as in the following example:

This is a sentence and this part has been revised .

As they are not part...

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Last post by my99
Tue Sep 01, 2015 2:15 pm
Replacing a number with the first four digits

Last post by silentguy « Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:16 am
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by rodrigoef » Sat Aug 08, 2015 2:50 am

Hello guys.

I have a list of numbers (geocoordinates) and the number of digits varies. I need to search the ones with more than four digits after...

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Last post by silentguy
Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:16 am
Multi Line Search (then insert)

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:46 am
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by bhooper » Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:10 pm

Forgive possible elementary nature of this, but I want to search all text files within a folder for a fixed series of lines and then insert a set...

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:46 am
Replace Character with 5 numbers

Last post by silentguy « Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:28 pm
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by fraXis » Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:17 pm

Hello,

I am using the trial of TextCrawler3 Pro and I am having trouble.

I want to replace all instances of O12345 in a file to N12345 . The 12345...

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Last post by silentguy
Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:28 pm
search, find duplicate and number

Last post by DigitalVolcano « Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:03 am
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by amster » Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:24 pm

This is the last one from me.

but imagine a document has three instances of:

Wednesday,17 June 2015
Wednesday,17 June 2015
Wednesday,17 June 2015...

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Last post by DigitalVolcano
Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:03 am
need to delete 50 linefeeds in a row..

Last post by amster « Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:21 pm
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by amster » Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:22 am

I have text output... and then its separated by 50 line feeds or carriage returns.... (not sure which or if there is a difference!) and then there's...

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Last post by amster
Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:21 pm

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