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[Moogie]

I'm modifying the language raws and I'm trying to do a mass find/replace in notepad++ but I really don't know what I'm doing with regular expressions. Could someone be so kind as to help me out and tell me what I need to use for both the Find and Replace fields?

Each line looks like this:

[T_WORD:APPLE:orange]

The pattern I'm searching for is this:

APPLE:orange]

...and I want to replace it with this:

APPLE:apple]

...so that the second word in lowercase is the same as the first word in uppercase. I've had some limited success with the Find field, using this expression:

:[A-Z].*\]

which highlights ":APPLE:orange]" but I don't understand how to do the replacement. I know I need to use parenthesis somehow, but my attempts at doing that failed hilariously.

Thank you for any help~

[nanomage]

you put things that you want to use in replace statement in parentheses, and then you refer to them as $1,$2 and so on, depending on the position.  Don't know how to make your editor convert string to uppercase though. Are you sure it's necessary? If it's indeed so, it might prove easier to user perl or powershell for that I think.

[Moogie]

Thanks, I read about using parenthesis around the parts I want to use in the Replace field but it didn't work as expected... all it did is write the letter 'A' instead of copying the string it found. (I put the parenthesis around "[A-Z]", not just "A")

Regarding converting the string to lowercase, I just want to do that so that the words ingame aren't all written 'LIKE THIS'.

I also read that Notepad++ should support /U and /L for making uppercase and lowercase, but that didn't seem to work for me either.

[Moogie]

Edit: Aaaand seconds after I post this, I cracked it. I was missing an asterisk. Now Find works for words of all lengths, like so:

:([A-Z].[A-Z]*):([a-z].*) Problem solved! :)

I totally just simplified the whole thing, whilst also allowing the expression to pick up and replace words including symbols, regardless of where those symbols appear in the word. Now it's perfect. I'm posting this in the rare case that someone else comes looking for a similar solution. The final, bestest Find/Replace expressions for fully translating any language file into readable ingame English, using Notepad++ is:

Find
:([A-Z].*):(.*)

Replace
:(\1):(\L\1)]

[Intrinsic]

If you are just searching for APPLE:orange] and to replace it with APPLE:apple] why not just press ctrl+h and stick it in the corresponding fields? regex is totally overkill for something so simple.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

Well he isn't just looking for APPLE:orange, that was just and example, He wanted something that could convert an entire language file to English.

Less of course I'm wrong and he really did all that for one item

[Moogie]

Well he isn't just looking for APPLE:orange, that was just and example, He wanted something that could convert an entire language file to English.

Less of course I'm wrong and he really did all that for one item

This, of course.

Don't worry, Intrinsic. Everybody has a "Brain switch = off" day.