Replace every nth instance of a character with a new line in Notepad++

notepadregexstring manipulation

I have a pipe delimited string of NAME|VALUE pairs looking something like this..

Name1|Value1|Name2|Value2|Name3|Value3

What I want to do is to replace every second instance of | with a new line so that I have something like this..

Name1|Value1
Name2|Value2
Name3|Value3

My issue isn't the new-line, as I know I can use \r\n for that, but rather the regex part that only replaces every second instance of |.

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Find: ([^\|]*\|[^\|]*)\|
Replace to: \1\n

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you can use regex for this as others have suggested:

try something like

/arama.php\?([a-zA-Z]+)=([a-zA-Z]+)

replacement line would look something like

/\1=\2

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Are you sure? Try selecting everything in the text and check In selection then do the 'Replace All'.

I suspect that your cursor was at the end of the file when you clicked 'Replace All' and the option was "Direction: Down". I do that myself sometimes without realising it only later!

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