gerka.blogg.se - Notepad ++ regex wildcard

unix, perl, PHP, etc allow other matches, but the principles are basically the same. If in doubt, you can always switch off regular expressions for a search. And dot, question mark, star, plus, pipe, caret and dollar.

You'll need some text open in Textpad to try this out on, of course.

I'm fairly sure that the human brain runs on regular expressions. Probably in Perl.

Scary, but they really should be taught to children as young as 3 or 4, IMHO. They have menu options under the " Search" menu as well.

These are the 3 main dialogue boxes we'll be using here.

(Also, if youselected the first 2 options, then choosing " Edit" when right-clicking a file will open the file in a new Textpad instance.) Putting a context menu shortcut in means you can right-click a file in Windows Explorer, and choose to open it in Textpad. I like to replace Notepad because I hate Notepad.

I like to allow multiple instances so I can have a different set of files open in each.

They'll appear in the Document Selector on the left, and in tabs along the top of the editing window.

Here's what you see when you fire up Textpad, probably.

And text is just another form of data, really.

I like Textpad as a general-purpose editor AND a coding tool, because it all comes down to a *lot* of techie tools to control data.

You can also save all changes to all open files using: You can see which files have changed - these have a * next to

"Search subfolders" if folders are several layers deep. To look through (closed) files in a directory, use Ctrl + F5. To replace across many files, open all the files and tick "All O Use the "Find Next" button to check what your RE finds It's not found, your higher numbers will be wrong.) (Be a bit careful if a (.) group is optional though, i.e. Replacing this with 2 1 gives us 123 Pelham Textpad uses 1 to 9 - which we can use wherever we wantĮ.g. To replace the letters, we can use new word1 Luckily, we can refer to things that have been matched usingĮach group has its own number (in sequential order), and canĮ.g. +) with something, butīut we don't know which one to use when replacing.

+$ Find any lines ending in letters, then ? or ! We may want to match (find) all lines ending with a ?, but Work out what's being matched and what's being replaced.Į.g. Textpad will replace what's been matched. The RE will (only/completely) match what you've typed. What do the following regular expressions do?Īs expected, Textpad will replace anything matched, with the This means we can use ( ) and ! will find ticktock!, tocktick!, ticktick!, and tocktock! What you would primarily be using in the regular expression are class operators and a quantifier.įor example \d quantifier cannot be qualified with the flavors Greedy, Lazy or Possessive.C Put shortcut to Textpad on: Context Menu It certainly is possible to do as you ask.