There are many useful articles about Regular expressions in Notepad++ in the Internet. I have decided to keep my own as a kind of my personal cheat-sheet.
Removing attachments in Thunderbird files
Find: (Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64)(.*?)(\r\n--) Replace: \1\3 . matches newlines
Convert list of named values into table
This regular expression extracts values from a list of named values and puts them in table columns. New table row starts with Delimiter:
NameOfValue1: NumberValue1
NameOfValue2: TextValue2
SomeUselessMultilineText1
NameOfValue3 = URLvalue3
SomeUselessMultilineText2
Delimiter ********
NameOfValue1: NumberValue4
NameOfValue2: TextValue5
SomeUselessMultilineText3
NameOfValue3 = URLvalue6
SomeUselessMultilineText4
Delimiter ********
The resulting table looks like this:
NumberValue1 \t TextValue2 \t URLvalue3
NumberValue4 \t TextValue5 \t URLvalue6
(NameOfValue1: )(\d+)(.*?)(NameOfValue2: )([[:alnum:][:punct:]]+)(.*?)(NameOfValue3 = )([[:alnum:][:punct:]]+)(.*?)(Delimiter\s\*{8})
\2\t\5\t\8
. matches new line
2 comments
Specified regular expression depends on the environment where it supposed to be use and additional commands such as : “:alnum:”, “:punct:” need to be modified or replaced. There is simpler way to do it:
(NameOfValue1:\s+.*)\n+(NameOfValue2:\s+.*)\n+.*\n+(NameOfValue3\s=\s.*)[\n\w\s]+\*+
Thank you for the reply, Alex.
When I make the replacement in Notepad++ using your regular expression (and \2\t\5\t\8 as the replacement value), I get this result:
NameOfValue2: TextValue3
Some Useless
… which is different from the desired. So it does depend on the environment. For me Notepad++ is the most convenient place to make such replacements.