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regexnotepad++
osos
osos

Reputation: 2133

Regular expression find and replace Notepad ++

I have text like the following :

<p class="field">[text text1 "text2"] </p>

which i want to get text1 and text2 and replace them in the below text

<p>[text text1 text2] <br/></p>

How can i do that ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 137

Answers (2)

m4573r
m4573r

Reputation: 990

Search <p class="field">\[(\S+ \S+) "(\S+)"\] </p>, and replace with <p>[\1 \2] <br/></p>

Upvotes: 1

Bernhard Barker
Bernhard Barker

Reputation: 55649

Untested, but I think this should do it.

I'm assuming the exact formatting, no room for more or less spaces anywhere. And that text, text1 and text2 can be anything.

Replace:

<p class="field">\[([^ ]+) ([^ ]+) "([^"]+)"\] </p>

with:

<p>\[\1 \2 \3\] <br/></p>

Explanation:

You may want to consider replacing the space characters in Replace with \s (white-space) for a more generic solution.

\[ and \] - escaped [ and ]
[^ ] - not a space
[^ ]+ - one or more characters that aren't spaces [^"] - not a "
[^"]+ - one or more characters that aren't "
\1 - gives the string that corresponds to the first thing in brackets (i.e. ([^ ]+))
\2 - gives the string that corresponds to the second thing in brackets (i.e. ([^ ]+))
\3 - gives the string that corresponds to the third thing in brackets (i.e. ([^"]+))

Upvotes: 5

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