replace text using regular Expression in Notepad++

Question

I have following text as input.

1 "India"  1 "IN" 
2 "Germany" 2 "GM" 
3 "Canada"  3 "CN" 
4 "United States"  4 "US"

and I want to convert all this strings to following pattern

<value in="India" out="IN"/> 
<value in="Germany" out="GM"/> 
<value in="Canada" out="CN"/> 
<value in="United States" out="US"/> 

How to do it using regular expression? I am using notepad++

Answer 1

Make sure you place the cursor at the beginning of the file.

1. Hit CTRL+H .
2. Choose the Replace tab.

3. Select Regular Expression at the bottom.

    Find: \\d+\\s+"(.*?)".*?"(.*?)" Replace: <value in="\\1" out="\\2"/> 

Answer 2

I don't have Notepad++, but in SubEthaEdit, I would do this:

Find:

[^"]*("[^"]*")[^"]*("[^"]*")[^"]*

(five sections of "not a quote", separated by quotes, capturing the two quoted parts)

Replace:

<value in=\1 out=\2/>\n

This ought to be very similar in Notepad++.

Answer 3

find : ^.*?"([^"]+)"[^"]+"(\\w+)"

replace with : <value in="\\1" out="\\2"/>

output :

<value in="India" out="IN"/> 
<value in="Germany" out="GM"/> 
<value in="Canada" out="CN"/> 
<value in="United States" out="US"/>

demo here : http://regex101.com/r/hH3rZ4