Notepad ++ Regular Expression Replacement

Question

I've got a big XML file and I should modify a tag.

Original:

<MyTag>13/19/59/70/68/32'</MyTag>'

What I want with regular expression:

<MyTag>13,19,59,70,68,32</MyTag>

That could be pretty easy if I'd got each time the same quantity of number but I could have 8 number or 5 or 6 or less.

How can I do that in one time?

Answer 1

As already pointed out in the comments, Notepad++'s regexes don't seem to be powerful enough to make that replace. In general, I don't think bare regex replacement isn't powerful enough for this replacement, you could at most get 13/19/59/70/68/32 in a capture group, and perform the / to , replace on that string by other means. That's why maybe I'd consider using another tool you are proficient in (perl, java, whatever) instead.

Using notepad++, I'd go for a normal replace first, to change all occurrences of '</MyTag>' to </MyTag> , and then a regex replace with this regular expression: (\\d+)/ . The replace should be \\1, . Clicking on Replace all should replace all occurrences.

If you wanted to avoid replacing digits separated by / in other tags, maybe you could use this regular expression <MyTag>(.*)(\\d+)/(.*)</MyTag> and replace it with <MyTag>\\1\\2,\\3</MyTag> . This replace will have to be executed N times, so you might be interested in recording a macro or similar if you want to use it.

Answer 2

IT IS POSSIBLE TO DO IN ONE REGEXP.

Search for:

/([0-9]+)('(<){1}/(MyTag>){1}')?

Replace with:

,\1\3\4