Suppose (this is sample data) I have these lines:
A W
BAKER X
CANDLESTICKMAKER Y
DOGCATCHER Z
I want to change the whitespace to colons, like this:
A:W
BAKER:X
CANDLESTICKMAKER:Y
DOGCATCHER:Z
How can I achieve this in Notepad++?
Best Answer
Replace
+
(followed by
+
) with:
:Make sure Regular expression is checked.
As igalvez pointed out in his comment, you might want to use
( |\t)+
to also match\t
(the tab character).One might want to use
\s
to match all whitespace, but that will also match the line breaks and condense your whole data to a single line.