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Andrews Dean
Andrews Dean

Reputation: 23

How can I exclude search pattern within double quotes in Notepad++

I have the following line from which I want to replace space with whitespace (tab) but want to keep the spaces within the double quotes as it is. I am on Notepad++.

[11/May/2020:10:10:20 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 523 52197 url.com - - TLSv1.2 19922 "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36" https://somelinkhere - -

Desired output:

[11/May/2020:10:10:20   -0400]  "GET / HTTP/1.1"    302 523 52197   url.com -   -   TLSv1.2 19922   "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36"   https://somelinkhere    -   -

Through the following regex I was able to select the string under the double quotes, but it's of no use for me.

"([^"]*)"

Can you please help me how this can be achieved?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 391

Answers (1)

Wiktor Stribiżew
Wiktor Stribiżew

Reputation: 626952

You can use

("[^"]*")|[ ]

Replace with (?1$1:\t).

Details:

  • ("[^"]*") - Capturing group 1: a ", then zero or more chars other than " and then a "
  • | - or
  • [ ] - matches a space (you may remove [ and ] here , they are used to make the space pattern visible in the answer).

See the demo screenshot:

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Upvotes: 1

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