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Bill Flippen
Bill Flippen

Reputation: 453

wildcard of specific length search in Notepad++

I can't seem to find an answer to this.
I have a small .dat file. From that file I would like to extract certain data. As you can see there is a 9 characters long string plus a space then Fixed Value that string is what I would like to find. One particular line of data is:

hEu 5RS67UCJ2 Fixed Value Ü  Ü 5UZZNKV0I Fixed Value Ü3  Ü3 3D910PZ9H Fixed Value Ú9.Ü")  Ú90Ü#- Ü") 5YWX8DMR2 Fixed Value Ü  Ü  54WI4OGWI Fixed Value Ü

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5069

Answers (1)

Bobulous
Bobulous

Reputation: 13169

If you want to match a nine-character uppercase alphanumeric string followed by "Fixed Value" then the following regular expression ought to do the trick:

([A-Z0-9]{9}) Fixed Value

The parentheses around the first part of the pattern form a capture sub-group, so you should be able to refer to this captured part in a "replace" value by using $1 or \1 (depending on how Notepad++ works) in the position where you want the nine-character string to be inserted in the "replace" value.

Upvotes: 8

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