regex&wildcard match and replace between certain characters

Question

I can search all characters with \±*\¦ wildcard in Microsoft Word like this: ±sample word1¦ ±sample word2¦

\±*\¦ matchs entire of characters between ± and ¦ And when I want to replace ± ¦ with ( ) or any other character I use this: (^&) That returns to me as: (±sample word1¦).

Everything is ok with ms word but I have not found yet equivalent of regex for text editors (I use sublimetext and notepad++)

Please help me!

Answer 1

Notepad++ uses boost regex flavour, to match 0 or more any characters you have to use .*

• Ctrl+H
• Find what: ±.*?¦
• Replace with: \($0\)
• check Wrap around
• check Regular expression
• UNCHECK . matches newline
• Replace all

Explanation:

±           # ± character, doesn't need to be escaped as it hasn't special meaning in regex
.*?         # 0 or more any character, but newline, not greedy
¦           # ¦ character, doesn't need to be escaped as it hasn't special meaning in regex. But if you use pipe `|` character then, you have to escape it: \|

Replacement:

\(          # opening parenthesis, have to be escaped in Notepad++
$0          # the whole match
\)          # closing parenthesis, have to be escaped in Notepad++

Given:

±sample word1¦ ±sample word2¦

Result for given example:

(±sample word1¦) (±sample word2¦)

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