Find and Replace multiple lines in notepad++

Question

So I got a text file with over 100000 lines to find and replace. Here is what I need to find:

>>DiskNum: 118
adfad
adfadf
adfadf
adfad
adafdd
>>FilePath: \\xxx\xxx\abc.tif

Replace with:

>>DiskNum: 118
adfad
adfadf
adfadf
adfad
adafdd
>>FullPath: C:\abc\abc.tif

The goal is to find >>DiskNum: 118 and the replace will happen on 6 lines after >>DiskNum: 118

Is there anyway to do it in notepadd++??

Answer 1

Use the following regex:

Find What: (^>>DiskNum: 118(?:\R.*){5}\R>>FilePath:\h*).* Replace With: \1C:\\abc\\abc.tif Regular expression: CHECKED

Details:

• (^>>DiskNum: 118(?:\R.*){5}\R>>FilePath:\h*) - Group 1 (referenced with \1 from the replacement pattern) capturing a sequence of:
  • ^ - start of a line
  • >>startoDiskNum: 118 - a literal char sequence
  • (?:\R.*){5} - 5 lines (\R is a line break, and .* matches any 0+ chars other than line break chars)
  • \R - line break
  • >>FilePath: - a literal char sequence
  • \h* - 0+ horizontal whitespaces
• .* - the rest of the line