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regexreplacenotepad++

Notepad++ all instances of character under a condition

This is my text

BROKEN This is a "sentence".
This sentence is an actual normal sentence.

I wish to replace/filter the quotation marks out of every line that has the word BROKEN in it I thought this would be simple but I couldn't do it my regex

(?=BROKEN)"

could I get some help?

Solution

  • If you also want to match double quotes before the word BROKEN, you can skip the whole line that does not contain the word.

    Find what:

    ^(?!.*\bBROKEN\b).*\R?(*SKIP)(*F)|"

    Replace with: (leave empty)

    Explanation

    • ^ Start of string
    • (?!.*\bBROKEN\b) Negative lookahead, assert that the word BROKEN does not occur
    • .*\R?(*SKIP)(*F) Match the whole line including an optional newline and skip the match
    • | Or
    • " Match a double quote

    See a regex101 demo.

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