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regexreplacenotepad++
MichaSch
MichaSch

Reputation: 29

notepad++ regex replace each occurence of a character only between two specific characters

I want to replace each occurence of a character only between two specific characters within a text.

For example, here I want to replace each occurence of whitespaces or umlauts only between two quotation marks; also for multiple links:

1. Here is a <a href="#foö bar   foo bär">link</a> for foö bar and foo bär.
2. Here is a <a href="#foö bar   foo bär">link</a> for foö bar and foo bär.
3. Here is a <a href="#foö bar   foo bär">link</a> for foö bar and foo bär.

So I want to get the following text:

1. Here is a <a href="#fooe_bar_foo_baer">link</a> for foö bar and foo bär.
2. Here is a <a href="#fooe_bar_foo_baer">link</a> for foö bar and foo bär.
3. Here is a <a href="#fooe_bar_foo_baer">link</a> for foö bar and foo bär.

I was thinking about replacing something like this:

(?<="[^"]*)\(s+?)(?=[^"]*")|(?<="[^"]*)(ä)(?=[^"]*")|...

with:

(?1_)(?2ae)...

But quantifiers in a lookbehind doesn't work. Thanks in advance...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 294

Answers (2)

bob
bob

Reputation: 625

This should do the trick

as 'search' you take:

"(.*)((ä)|(ö)|(ü)|(ß)|(\s))(.*)"

as 'replace' you take

"\1(?2(?3ae)(?4oe)(?5ue)(?6sz)(?7_))\8"

Edit: added the missing umlauts

Upvotes: 0

vks
vks

Reputation: 67988

(\s+)(?![^"]*(?:"[^"]*")*[^"]*$)

You use this with lookahead.See demo.

https://regex101.com/r/JLANJC/1

Upvotes: 1

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