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Carlos Alba Zamanillo
Carlos Alba Zamanillo

Reputation: 1319

Using regular expressions to do mass replace in Notepad++

I want to replace quotation marks in a big file in this cases:

Replace:

M 100644 367cb229 "DFA/OETK/oetk_settings/Sony DADC Demo_with_pass.p12"

By:

M 100644 367cb229 DFA/OETK/oetk_settings/Sony DADC Demo_with_pass.p12

But I don´t want to replace all the quotation marks of the document, only this specific cases.

Can anybody help me?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 310

Answers (2)

stema
stema

Reputation: 92976

Try this as pattern

^(?=M \d{6}\b)(.*?)"(.*?)"

and this as replacement

$1$2

^ is matching the start of the row

(?=M \d{6}\b) is a positive lookahead assertion, that ensures that the row starts with M \d{6}

\d{6} are six digits

\b is a wordboundary, it ensures, that there is a non word character after the last digit, otherwise it would be also true if there are more than 6 digits.

(.*?) is matching as less as possible till the following pattern. What is matched is stored and that string can be retrieved by using $1 for the first group, $2 for the second group, ...

Upvotes: 1

ManojRK
ManojRK

Reputation: 962

Use this Find expression: 

(M \d{6} [^"]*)"([^"]*)"

And this Replace expression 

$1$2

I this the first part (M \d{6} [^"]*) selects M 100644 367cb229 - character M followed by 6 numbers and then anything till a ".

The second part ([^"]*) selects DFA/OETK/oetk_settings/Sony DADC Demo_with_pass.p12 - the text within the quotes.

Any text within parenthesis is captured by $1, $2, etc and can be used in replace.

See if this matches for all cases

Upvotes: 0

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