Answers: regex - Replace spaces with colon (:) in Notepad++?

Farid

Suppose (this is sample data) I have these lines:

A                          W
BAKER                      X
CANDLESTICKMAKER           Y
DOGCATCHER                 Z

I want to change the whitespace to colons, like this:

A:W
BAKER:X
CANDLESTICKMAKER:Y
DOGCATCHER:Z

How can I achieve this in Notepad++?

Oliver Salzburg

Replace + ( followed by +) with ::

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Make sure Regular expression is checked.

As igalvez pointed out in his comment, you might want to use ( |\t)+ to also match \t (the tab character).

One might want to use \s to match all whitespace, but that will also match the line breaks and condense your whole data to a single line.

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Jeremy

I know its simple, but I can't get it to work...

I have a strings like

{span style="display:none"}123{/span} and 

{span style="display:none"}456{/span} and 

{span style="display:none"}789{/span}

in a file.

I want to remove all of these string.

So, I thought a simple regular expression replace in NotePad++ should be like

{span style="display:none"}[(.)]{/span}

but, this is not working.

Thank for your help!

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