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klewis
klewis

Reputation: 8350

How to select multiple vertical characters in Notepad++

I have the following setup (but really 30 LI items) in Notepad++

<ol>
<li>1. test1</li>
<li>2. test2</li>
<li>3. test3</li>
<li>4. test4</li>
<li>5. test5</li>
<li>6. test6</li>
<li>7. test7</li>
</ol>

But I want to replace the first 3 characters after each <li> item so that it looks like this...

<ol>
<li>test1</li>
<li>test2</li>
<li>test3</li>
<li>test4</li>
<li>test5</li>
<li>test6</li>
<li>test7</li>
</ol>

Is this possible with with any UI tools in Notepad++? Or do I have to manually go by hand and fix my HTML page...

Thanks for any advice!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3116

Answers (3)

P0W
P0W

Reputation: 47794

Clad Clad suggest a nice way, but you can also use regex search and replace if lines are too many that are scrolling off the screen.

  • Find what: (<li>)\d+\.\s*(.+</li>)

  • Replace with: \1\2

  • select Regular Expression check box, click Replace All

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Upvotes: 1

herohuyongtao
herohuyongtao

Reputation: 50667

Just replace \d+. (with a space in the end) by nothing. Remember to check on the regular expression option.

Upvotes: 0

Clad Clad
Clad Clad

Reputation: 2771

Hey there why don't you use Column edition :) it's pretty easy with it :)

it's something like Alt + click then you drag all the column you want :)

here is a link : http://notepad-plus-plus.org/features/column-mode-editing.html

Upvotes: 1

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