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Bruce_Tj - 2007-05-18

Hello,

^ when used in the Find when Regular Expression is checked fails on Replace all, Replace works as expected. Error message is "The regular expression to search is formed badly".

Find ^
Replace xzxzxz

Clicking on replace will enter 'xzxzxz' at the beginning of the first line. Clicking on replace again will enter 'xzxzxz' at the beginning of the next line.

I am attempting to change all the lines at once with the "Replace All" button, but it is failing.

Thanks
Bruce

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- Bruce_Tj - 2007-05-21
  
  Ralph/pshute,
  
  Thanks for your interest and answers. My desired solution is still not working out for me. A couple of my colleagues are using different editors that are working the way that I expected Notepad++ to work, Crimson for one. It sounds like the problem is related to the initial design, which was based on Scintilla. Since I have a solution that involves opening the file in another text editor and making changes their, it doesn't seem like it's worth my time to continue to try and find a solution using only Notepad++.
  
  Bruce
  
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- Nobody/Anonymous - 2007-05-19
  
  Hi again, Bruce.
  
  I didn't see this message before posting the original one, but anyway... you want to take a look at the post below[1], there you will find a workaround for this (and the possible explanation of why it failed before).
  
  Ralph.
  
  [1] http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4320108
  
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- pshute - 2007-05-21
  
  I would use the advanced search/replace (control+R) wihtout regex, using control+M to add a newline to your search and replace strings - see http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/newlineFindReplace-HOWTO.php for all your options.
  
  It won't be able to match the start of the first line, of course, because it matches newline, not start of line.
  
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