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copied!<p>Try a regular expression replace of <code>(good)|(great)|(fine)</code> with <code>(?1bad)(?2worse)(?3not)</code>.</p> <p>The search looks for either of three alternatives separated by the <code>|</code>. Each alternative has ist own capture brackets. The replace uses the conditional form <strong>?Ntrue-expression:false-expression</strong> where <strong>N</strong> is decimal digit, the clause checks whether capture expression <strong>N</strong> matches.</p> <p>Tested in Notepad++ 6.3</p> <p>Update:</p> <blockquote> <p>You can find good documentation, about the new PRCE Regular Expressions, used by N++, since the 6.0 version, at the TWO addresses below :</p> <p><a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html">http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/format/boost_format_syntax.html">http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/format/boost_format_syntax.html</a></p> <p>The FIRST one concerns the syntax of regular expressions in SEARCH</p> <p>The SECOND one concerns the syntax of regular expressions in REPLACEMENT</p> <p>And, if you can understand "written French", I made a tutorial about PCRE regular expressions, stored in the personal site of Christian Cuvier (cchris), at the address below :</p> <p><a href="http://oedoc.free.fr/Regex/TutorielRegex.zip">http://oedoc.free.fr/Regex/TutorielRegex.zip</a></p> </blockquote> <p>(Extracted from a posting by <strong>THEVENOT Guy</strong> at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/notepad-plus/discussion/331754/thread/ca059a0a/">http://sourceforge.net/p/notepad-plus/discussion/331754/thread/ca059a0a/</a> )</p>

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