Find and replace using wildcard character in Notepad++

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I have very long list in this format:

<option value="adf">Option 1</option>
<option value="es3">Option 2</option>
<option value="34f">Option 3</option>

With Notpad++, how can I do a find and replace to change it to this format?:

<value="1">Option 1</option>
<value="1">Option 2</option>
<value="1">Option 3</option>

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This replace should do it if I understand exactly what you want to accomplish:

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Notepad++ – Find and Replace N Characters Long Random String Using Wildcards/Regex

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In Notepad++ go to Search → Replace
In the Find What textbox paste the following: youtubehd:\w\w\w\w\w\w\w\w
In the Replace With textbox paste the following: youtubehd
Ensure that Search Mode is set to Regular expression
Click Replace All

Thanks to KCotreau for pointing out that search mode defaults to Normal and needs to be changed.

Edit:

It's been pointed out in the comments below that you could instead use youtubehd:\w{8} as your search pattern. This is correct and indeed preferable. Support for this was only added in Notepad++ v6 though which came out after this was originally written hence the reason why I used the longer form. See here for more.

Notepad++ wildcard in find/replace

Ctrl+H
Find what: ^F9\h+\d+\K
Replace with: text # a space then the text to be added
check Wrap around
check Regular expression
Replace all

Explanation:

^           # beginning of line
  F9        # literally
  \h+       # 1 or more horizontal spaces
  \d+       # 1 or more digits
  \K        # forget all we have seen until this position

Result for given example:

F9 23 Text
F9 41 Text
F9 32 Text
F9 12 Text

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