I want to search with Notepad++ in a subtitle file for "," and ut should be replaced with "." between the digits of the timestamps but not in the rest of the text strings.
Source:
00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,000
vor allem aber an Ausläufen, Reitplätzen
und Weideflächen.
At the moment I’m searching with: "," and for the replacing I’m using the regex "\1.\2". But this will change also all other commas between the text strings.
- Search-Pattern: [,]
- Replace-Pattern: [\1.\2]
Result:
00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:20.000
vor allem aber an Ausläufen. Reitplätzen
und Weideflächen.
How I have to expand the regular expression to replace the commas only between the digits of the timestamps?
What I expect:
00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:20.000
vor allem aber an Ausläufen, Reitplätzen
und Weideflächen.
>Solution :
You could use a bit more specific regex for Notepad++
\b\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\K,(?=\d{3}\b)
The pattern matches:
\bA word boundar to prevent a partial word match\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}Match the hours, minutes and seconds part\K,Forget what is matched so far and then match a comma(?=\d{3}\b)Positive lookahead, assert 3 digits followed by a word boundary to the right
In the replacement use a dot .
See a regex demo.
Or use 2 capture groups and use those groups in the replacement separated by a dot $1.$2
\b(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}),(\d{3})\b
See another regex demo.
A fully matching pattern with 3 capture groups, where \h+ matches 1 or more horizontal whitespace characters:
\b(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}),(\d{3}\h+-->\h+\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}),(\d{3})\b
See another regex demo
In the replacement use $1.$2.$3