Finding A Digit Pattern For Replacing In Notepad++

Question

Imagine we have a time code like this : 00:21:06,200 (our goal) but in our text we have like this format too : 00:2106,200 or if 00:21x06,200, x is another number too ! i want to find and to put : between 21 and 06 for example or repalce x with :. i tried this way : (:)+/d{2} it finds numbers like this pattern but now i want after finding this pattern numbers, it adds ":" after second digits and it gonna be like this : 00:21:06,200. Ty so much :) My Notepad++ regex isn't so god so i did my best.

Answer 1

You could use:

Find what:

\b\d\d:\K(\d\d)[x:\d]?(?=\d\d\b)

The pattern matches:

• \b A word boundary to prevent a partial word match
• \d\d: Match 2 digits and :
• \K Forget what is matched so far
• (\d\d) Capture group 1, match 2 digits
• [x:\d]? Optionally match x or : or a digit
• (?=\d\d\b) Assert 2 digits to the right

See a regex demo

Replace with:

$1: