search for series of numbers and group them in notepad++

Question

Here i have a long list of numbers that scene changes of a video.

Sometimes because of close up actions there are a series of number like this

19068:19069
19069:19070
19070:19071
19071:19072
19072:19073
19073:19074
19074:19075
19075:19076

and i want a way to search through the list and group the above example into

19068:19076

Any ideas?

cheers

Answer 1

As far as I understand, you want to delete numbers when they are equal at the end of a line and the beginning of next line.

Here is a way to go:

• Ctrl+H
• Find what: :(\d+)\n\1
• Replace with: LEAVE EMPTY
• CHECK Wrap around
• CHECK Regular expression
• Replace all

Explanation:

:           # colon
(\d+)       # group 1, 1 or more digit
\n          # line feed, you can use \r\n for windows EOL or \R for any kind of linebreak
\1          # backreference to group 1

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