Find in files: zero pad line numbers

[tomlamson]

I often use find in files and then save the results to a text file and sort on a column number. I want to keep the file name and line number so that I can always resort to get the original order or to manually search the original file. This would be easier if the file number was left padded with zeroes. e.g. if a file has 100 to 999 lines then give a 3 digit line number e.g. (003) (029) (487). Loved TextPad for many years now! Thanks for a great product!

[ben_josephs]

You can fix them in two steps:

Find what: \<([0-9])\>
Replace with: 00\1

[X] Regular expression

Find what: \<([0-9]{2})\>
Replace with: 0\1

[X] Regular expression

These assume you are using Posix regular expression syntax:

Configure | Preferences | Editor

[X] Use POSIX regular expression syntax