I have a problem about find and replace in notepad++.
I want to find a space+space in text and replace with just one space. But the area I want to find and replace is between tags (ex: <div>...</div>). My file is .xml so it has a lot of tags.
How to find and replace in the between tags in notepad++
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Related Solutions
This is not possible with a regular Find and Replace. If you use Notepad++ 6, you can take advantage of the new regex engine that supports PCRE (source).
Press Ctrl + H to open the Find and Replace dialog and perform the following action:
Find what: \^.*?~
Replace with:
Wrap around: checked
Regular expression: selected
. matches newline: checked
Now press Alt + A to replace all occurrences.
The regular expression in Find what is composed as follows:
\^is a literal ^..*?is the least amount of characters that allows the regular expression to match.~is a literal ~.
Find and Replace multiline string of text between tags
Solution #1
Use the following regex in Find what: \[anchor=ad1\](.*?)\[anchor=ad1end\],
Replace with: [anchor=ad1]replace[anchor=ad1end]
and select Regular expression and [x] . matches newline
Sample data for testing:
[anchor=ad1]some multiline string of text
that should be replaced[anchor=ad1end]
[anchor=ad1][img]http://i.imgur.com/some_image.png[/img]
another one multiline string of text
that should be replaced[anchor=ad1end]
...
Solution #2
A little more advanced solution. This requires Notepad++ v6.0 or above.
Find what: (?<=\[anchor=ad1\]).*?(?=\[anchor=ad1end\])
Replace with: replace
select Regular expression and [x] . matches newline
Important Note: Replace button is NOT working in Notepad++ v6.1.6, but the Replace All works just fine.
Best Answer
This should do the trick.
Note that the Replace with actually has a single space in there.
Then Replace All.
Basically it's matching multiple spaces, i.e
' +', with a single space as long as the look-ahead doesn't find anything other than a</div>to end the expression. Instead of.*?it uses[^<]*?to make sure it doesn't match beyond any other tag marker.It works on a simple test document but you might want to test it out first with yours.