Capture groups don't seem to be behaving as expected in Find/Replace operations.
To reproduce...
1 - Start with this existing text in Notepad++...
**
29th of December
30th of December
31st of December
1st of January
2nd of January
**
2 - Let's assume you need the text reformatted like so...
**
December 29th
December 30th
December 31st
January 1st
January 2nd
**
3 - Hit Ctrl+R to invoke the Find/Replace dialog.
4 - In the top textarea, type...
([0-9]+..) of ([a-z]+)
5 - In the bottom textarea, type...
\2 \1
6 - Ensure 'Regular Expr' is selected.
7. Click 'Find'. The first matching row of text is selected.
8. Click 'Repl&FAgain' to replace that row with your text and repeat the Find operation from step 7.
9. Click 'Repl&FAgain' to repeat step 8. Note that the text has been replaced with an empty line -- not your replacement text.
Further invocations of 'Repl&FAgain' produce rows of empty text.
The issue seems to center around the 'Repl&FAgain' routine itself...
- Starting the sequence with the 'Find' button and then using 'Replace Rest' doesn't exhibit the behavior.
- Starting the sequence with the 'Find' button, and then using 'Repl&FAgain' will produce the empty rows of text until you click 'Replace Rest', which will replace the rest of the matches as expected.
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Capture groups don't seem to be behaving as expected in Find/Replace operations.
To reproduce...
1 - Start with this existing text in Notepad++...
**
29th of December
30th of December
31st of December
1st of January
2nd of January
**
2 - Let's assume you need the text reformatted like so...
**
December 29th
December 30th
December 31st
January 1st
January 2nd
**
3 - Hit Ctrl+R to invoke the Find/Replace dialog.
4 - In the top textarea, type...
([0-9]+..) of ([a-z]+)
5 - In the bottom textarea, type...
\2 \1
6 - Ensure 'Regular Expr' is selected.
7. Click 'Find'. The first matching row of text is selected.
8. Click 'Repl&FAgain' to replace that row with your text and repeat the Find operation from step 7.
9. Click 'Repl&FAgain' to repeat step 8. Note that the text has been replaced with an empty line -- not your replacement text.
Further invocations of 'Repl&FAgain' produce rows of empty text.
The issue seems to center around the 'Repl&FAgain' routine itself...
- Starting the sequence with the 'Find' button and then using 'Replace Rest' doesn't exhibit the behavior.
- Starting the sequence with the 'Find' button, and then using 'Repl&FAgain' will produce the empty rows of text until you click 'Replace Rest', which will replace the rest of the matches as expected.