Find and Replace text between ^ and ~ in Notepad++
This is not possible with a regular Find and Replace. If you use Notepad++ 6, you can take advantage of the new regex engine that supports PCRE (source).
Press Ctrl + H to open the Find and Replace dialog and perform the following action:
Find what: \^.*?~
Replace with:
Wrap around: checked
Regular expression: selected
. matches newline: checked
Now press Alt + A to replace all occurrences.
The regular expression in Find what is composed as follows:
\^
is a literal ^..*?
is the least amount of characters that allows the regular expression to match.~
is a literal ~.
You're gonna want to search for \^.*?~
and make sure . matches newline is enabled:
This is because ^
has a special meaning, it matches the beginning of a line. Thus, we need to escape it with a backslash \^
.
Writing ^*
would match "any number of start-of-line in a row". .*
matches "any character", but by default it doesn't match newlines.
Try using this regex in the find section \^[^~]*~
to replace everything between ^ and ~ inclusively.