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Hi,

I want to split textlines into multiple lines:
The result should be: However, my textfile also contains lines like these:
This line should be splitted as follows:
Is there a way to do this in one regex find&replace?

Any help is appreciated!

No, I don't believe regex would be able to handle a variety of things you are doing there. The first one that jumps out is incrementing by characters (A-B-C...) The the logic of when to split (45 vs 45_2) would be troublesome. A scripting language would probably be more suitable to your needs.

I think that TextPad RegEx can do this, but don't have time to try it now. My only concern is if we are limited to \1-\9 and it looks like we need 10 variables vs. 9. This means it will need to take two passes.

The key is to put the values in () for \1-\9 and then hard code the 10 lines vs incrementing the letters

Something like this with POSIX:
Search for: SetPlanTijden2R(fc45, PL1, ([0-9][0-9]), ([0-9][0-9] etc.

Replace with
TXA PL1 45 = \1\nTXB PL1 45 = \2\nTXC PL1 45 = \3\nTXD PL1 45 = \4\nTXE PL1 45 = \5\n\nTXA PL1 45_2 = \6\nTXB PL1 45_2 = \7\n etc.

ben_josephs will probably set this up in just a few minutes. Will take me much longer, no time to do it now.

Other questions:
Will the value always be 45 or is that also a variable?
Will the PL be a constant or is that also a variable?
Will the number digits always be 1 or 2 in the positions shown, or what range could they be?

Thanks for your answers. If I have some spare time I will put this into a small C program, I think that's easier... Also because all other lines in the file which don't contain these texts should be deleted, so multiple parsing will be necessary. Or not??


Regarding Bob's questions:

Each item between the parentheses is a variable argument for the functions SetPlanTijden and SetPlanTijden2R.
The number digits could vary from 0 to 999.
Furthermore, there is no convention for using spaces in front of the function or in the arguments, so each argument could be proceeded by spaces. Or not...

I see you're now looking for a different solution. But here is what I was going to write.

You can do it in two steps:

1. Convert the longer lines into pairs of shorter lines:

Find what: ^([^(]+)\( *([^,]+), *([^,]+)(.*).*, *fc([^,]+)
Replace with: \1(\2, \3\4);\n\1(fc\5, \3

[X] Regular expression

Replace All

2. Split the shorter lines:

Find what: ^[^(]+\( *fc([^,]+), *([^,]+), *([^,]+), *([^,]+), *([^,]+), *([^,]+), *([^,]+)\);
Replace with: TXA \2 \1 = \3\nTXB \2 \1 = \4\nTXC \2 \1 = \5\nTXD \2 \1 = \6\nTXE \2 \1 = \7\n

[X] Regular expression

Replace All

These assume you are using Posix regular expression syntax:

Configure | Preferences | Editor

[X] Use POSIX regular expression syntax

But I would not do it this way. I would use a script.

Thanks Ben for confirming my thought that it was doable.

But looking at your solution, I think it would have taken me three times longer than my original estimate to come up with this.

Thanks for the great example and the tutorial. I like how you used anything not a comma vs. [0-9] blocks, much better approach.

The spare time was found today and I started my first C# project

The program works great, but probably use of regex could make my code more efficient than now.

However, thanks for your efforts in helping me.