Find and Replace in Notepad++ using Regular Expression

Question

I got a numeric list. One number per line. I want to replace all numbers with a specific pattern. For example, my file look like this:

I want to replace it so as to look like the following using a regexp in Notepad++:

[1],
[2],
[3],
....

Of course. But I could not caught regexp return value. How can I catch? is index number using $1?.. — esquare
– esquare, Commented Apr 30, 2011 at 9:46

cnicutar · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-30 09:46:14Z

11

Find what:

([0-9]+)

Replace with:

[\1],

answered Apr 30, 2011 at 9:46

cnicutar

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3 Comments

Thanks. But Should I write regexp in ( )

You could also drop the () and use [\0], instead.

@Tim Pietzcker Nice one, didn't think of that :)