Notepad++ - find and move lines

Question

I have a big language file that has a lot of block like the following:

<trans-unit id="common:CommandDescription_EditTest:Manager.CommandDescription.Text">
        <source>Редактировать тест</source><target>Editar prueba</target>
        <alt-trans>
          <target xml:lang="en" state="translated">Edit test</target>
          <target xml:lang="pt" state="x-autotrans">Editar teste</target>
          <target xml:lang="fr" state="translated">Editer test</target>
          <target xml:lang="zh" state="translated">编辑检查</target>
          <target xml:lang="es" state="translated">Editar test</target>
          <target xml:lang="it" state="translated">Modificare test</target>
        </alt-trans>`

I need <target>Editar prueba</target> to go between <alt-trans> tags taking into account that there are a lot of these blocks.

How can I achive that?

Answer 1

• Ctrl+H
• Find what: (<target>.+?</target>)(\s+)(<alt-trans>)(\s+)
• Replace with: $2$3$4$1$4
• CHECK Match case
• CHECK Wrap around
• CHECK Regular expression
• Replace all

Explanation:

(                   # group 1
    <target>            # openning tag
    .+?                 # 1 or more any character, not greedy
    </target>           # closing tag
)                   # end group
(\s+)               # group 2, 1 or more spaces character, including linebreak
(<alt-trans>)       # group 3, openning tag
(\s+)               # group 4, 1 or more spaces character, including linebreak

Replacement:

$2      # content of group 2, spaces for indentation
$3      # content of group 3, openning tag <alt-trans>
$4      # content of group 4, spaces for indentation
$1      # content of group 1, the target tag
$4      # content of group 4, spaces for indentation

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