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swapna
swapna

Reputation: 143

Delete nth occurrence of some text in Notepad++

I have a big html file in which I have to delete each nth(6th,7th) occurrence of p element, how can I do it in notepad++ using pyscript or regex.

<p>Some text</p>
<p>Some text</p>
<p>Some text</p>

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1380

Answers (3)

psxls
psxls

Reputation: 6935

Go to Search > Replace menu (shortcut CTRL+H) and do the following:

  1. Find what:

    (?:<p>[^<]+<\/p>\r?\n){5}\K(?:<p>[^<]+<\/p>\r?\n){1,2}((?:<p>[^<]+<\/p>\r?\n)*)

  2. Replace:

    $1

  3. Select radio button "Regular Expression"

  4. Then press Replace All.

You can test it online at regex101.

Please note that this will delete only the 6th and 7th element of a consecutive list of <p> elements. If you want to delete in the same consecutive list the 12th and 13th element, then Zaheer is right, and you should probably use an HTML parser.

Upvotes: 1

Casimir et Hippolyte
Casimir et Hippolyte

Reputation: 89639

You can try this:

search : ((?:<p\b(?:[^<]+|<(?!/p>))*</p>(?:[^<]+|<(?!p\b))*){5})<p\b(?:[^<]+|<(?!/p>))*</p>((?:[^<]+|<(?!p\b))*)<p\b(?:[^<]+|<(?!/p>))*</p>
replace: $1$2

Upvotes: 0

Zaheer Ahmed
Zaheer Ahmed

Reputation: 28588

I would recommend you to use some programming language that read file and delete with a loop or other required logic. As regex in Notepad++ is very poor and if you deleted 6th and 7th occurrence your next 12th and 13th occurrence is now 10th and 11th and further it goes down accordingly.

Upvotes: 2

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