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johnatan stromchild
johnatan stromchild

Reputation: 11

Regex. Notepad++ How to replace a line with itself and an additional symbol/word?

Say I have a regex search that matches what I'm looking for. I need to replace the match with itself plus an additonal word.

Line example:

John

^.*John.*$ This matches what I want (the word John). This is what I need after the replacement:

John abc123

Upvotes: 0

Views: 716

Answers (2)

MonkeyZeus
MonkeyZeus

Reputation: 20737

There is no reason to capture everything with .*

Just use:

regex

John

replace

$0 abc123

If you want to avoid turning Johnathan into John abc123athan then use word boundaries:

regex

\bJohn\b

replace

$0 abc123

One of the biggest issues with using ^.*John.*$ whatsoever is that if there are two Johns in a single line then only the last one will be replaced.

John has a friend named John

would become

John has a friend named John abc123

Upvotes: 1

Hammurabi
Hammurabi

Reputation: 1179

You want regex capture groups. Then you can use the capture group as part of what you replace in the string. I'm not sure what syntax Notepad++ uses, so you may need different syntax than this example. See regex101.com to test your regex.

For your example, in python, you can use () to specify the capture group, and r'\1' to use capture group 1 in the new text:

text = 'hello John, how are you'
text = re.sub('([A-Z]\w*)', r'\1' + ' abc123', text)
print(text)
# hello John abc123, how are you

Upvotes: 0

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