Notepad++: Multiple line search & multiple line replace

Question

I'm having a battle with a regex. (MOBI creation) I have two files: one with XML, the other an HTML table of contents.

The important parts of the XML:

<navPoint id="_NeedsHTMLid" playOrder="40">
<navLabel><text>Needs anchor text from link.)</text></navLabel>
...

The HTML TOC, of course, looks like: schema.org Article Mark-up

====== Hours and hours... worked with Textpad forever. Saw remarks here, now I'm using NotePad++... some of the regex results are different (NOT that I had it working anyway.) #_[\\b(\\w\\b] was returning the ID: now? Not so much!

Does anyone know how to yank both the ID and the anchor text out of these? I'd be so grateful.

Answer 1

#_[\\b(\\w\\b] is not a valid regex. Try _([^"]+)\\b .

Edited: try [^"] in place of \\w .

Answer 2

You can use this to get the id and the anchor text at the same time:

_(\\w+)\\b|([aZ\\s.]+[)]+)

Answer 3

If you want to match the ids and the text, go to Search > Find menu (shortcut CTRL + F ) and do the following:

1. Find what:

    id="([a-zA-Z0-9\\-\\:\\_\\.]+)"|<text>(.+?)<\\/text> 

2. Select radio button "Regular Expression"

3. Then press Find All in Current Document

You can test it with your example at regex101 .

Here's a StackOverflow post about valid id names.

I didn't provided you with a Search and Replace solution, since you didn't mentioned anything about a replacement.