Notepad ++正则表达式跨换行符查找和替换

Question

I'm trying to convert a bunch of text in a file into a format that can go into a CSV file. I'm trying to do this with Notepad++ by coming up with a regular expression that can do the conversions. I have a text file in the following format:

Company Name 1
First: Sally
Last: Cohen

Company Name 2
First: Janny
Last: Smith

First: John
Last: Dough

Some fields don't have a company name, but I'm trying to convert it into the following format: REPLACEMENT:

"Company Name 1";"Sally";"Cohen"
"Company Name 2";"Janny";"Smith"
"";"John";"Dough"

What is the right regular expression combination for the search and replace fields in Notepad++ to do this across new lines?

Thank you for the help!

Answer 1

Regex

Find what: (?:\\r\\n)*(.*)\\r\\nFirst: (.+)\\r\\nLast: (.+)\\r\\n

Replace with: "\\1";"\\2";"\\3"\\r\\n

Result

Detail

1. (?:\\r\\n)* : match but not group, remove \\r\\n before Company name or First
2. (.*)\\r\\n : match company name, .* means it can be empty
3. First: (.+)\\r\\n and Last: (.+)\\r\\n : just match the first name and last name, .+ means it should be least one letter