Notepad ++ Find String and place symbol at beginning of line
I have 5000 lines. I need to find if a line contains a certain word phrase such as "package" and put a "1%" at the beginning of it. How would I do this with replace in notepad++?
An example being:
DOGS AND CATS
if the line contains the word "DOGS" anywhere in the string make the new line:
1% DOGS AND CATS
Solution 1:
- Ctrl+H
- Find what:
^(?=.*DOGS)
- Replace with:
%1
- CHECK Match case
- CHECK Wrap around
- CHECK Regular expression
-
UNCHECK
. matches newline
- Replace all
Explanation:
^ # beginning of line
(?=.*DOGS) # positive lookahead, make sure we have DOGS somewhere in the line
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