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user638820
user638820

Reputation: 23

Regular expression in Notepad++ for the replacing of one word per line

I've been trying to replace (and translate) this text, and i don't know what formula I should Use for thousands of places that I need to translate to Spanish. OKay this is what i want to do, i want to use regular expressions on Notepadd++.

I give 4 variations, and in bold is what's supposed to go after the name of the place, in lower case and not to be confused with eg. Agency Village because that's its name.

Missouri 5,988,927

Adrian City city 1,677

Advance city 1,347

Affton CDP 20,307

Agency Village village 684

Airport Drive village 698

To

| [[Adrian City (Misuri)|Adrian City]] || ciudad || 1677

|-

| [[Advance (Misuri)|Advance]] || ciudad || 1347

|-

| [[Afton (Misuri)|Afton]] || CDP || 20307

|-

| [[Agency Village (Misuri)|Agency Village]] || villa || 684

|-

| [[Airport Drive (Misuri)|Airport Drive]] || villa || 698

Upvotes: 2

Views: 898

Answers (1)

stema
stema

Reputation: 93046

I think there is no way to get the Missouri from the first line into every following line with Notepad. In Notepad the regular expressions are limited to one row. There for you would need a scripting language like Perl.

Then you will need for every keyword a separate regular expression. For "city" it would be:

(.*)\scity\s(.*)

should be replaced with

| [[\1 (Misuri)|\1]] || ciudad || \2

The expression between the () are stored into variables and can be recalled with \1, \2, ... for the first, second, ... occurrence of brackets.

Take care if you have cases like

Adrian City village 1,677

you have to activate "Match case" and you need to rely on the upper/lower case distinction.

To remove the commas from the numbers:

(\d*),(\d*)
\1\2

Upvotes: 2

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