Is there a way in notepad++, to split one line text, to text with given maximum number of characters in one line? I found only undefined line split in lines operations.
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- Press CTRL+H to bring up Search and replace.
- In the find what box enter:
^.{4} - Where 4 may be modified to any number representing the number of characters you want per line.
- In the replace field enter
$0\r\n - In search mode select "Regular expression"
- To wrap all lines click "Replace All"
Notes:
- Before using "Replace all" you may want to click "Find next" and "Replace" a few times to verify that your search is working the way you intend it to.
- Note that there is no Find and replace way to reverse these changes. You will have to use Undo if you want to reverse it.
- Note that we are changing the text to fix the line length. If you just want to see long lines in the window in the view menu select "Word Wrap".
^.{4}means starting from the beginning of the line find the first 4 characters.$0\r\nmeans take the information found and replace it with that same information followed by a carriage return and a line feed. (Note that in *nix systems carriage returns and line feeds are dealt with differently.)
Yes, this is possible.
If you do a search/replace and use Regex as option, the following regex will allow you to split a line in two.
^(.{4})(.+)Replace the number 4 with the amount of chars you want to find. Replace with $1 and $2 to find the first and second string. Replacing it with $1-$2 will place a - in between both strings.
You see to be asking about how to wrap text. Depending on your use you may want a soft wrap or a hard wrap.
soft wrap
This means that the text will split at X columns wide but when you copy and paste it to say MS Word it will expand again to fill the page. In otherwords it's just a visual compression
hard wrap
This means N++ will actually add newlines (Carriage Returns, enter whatever you want to call them*). I presume this is what you want.
There's a number of ways to do it.
Off about 80 seconds of testing I'd recommend the TextFx Plugin. It depends how firm you want that split to be.
* - though yes I understand that CF/LF are different.
You can use CodVerter Online Text Editor that has a simple tool
exactly for this assignment.
Text can be splitted by a number of characters or by a delimiter.
Navegation: Text Editor>>>Tools>>>Text Splitter
