A look at the power of Regular Expressions for the layman Use in Notepad++ Anjesh Tuladhar http://anjesh.blogspot.com http://just-tech.blogspot.com

Remove numbers from the list of 1000 rows of names

Choose “Replace” from “Search” menu

You will get a replace dialog box.

Type [0-9]* (.*) in find what box, in replace with box. Note: There’s a space between [0-9]* and (.*).

Check Regular Expression checkbox to exploit regex functionality.

Hurray! Done.

Now you have to swap numbers and names, but separated by comma.

Type ( [0-9]*) (.*) in find what box, , in replace with box.

Replaced!

Now you have to remove numbers, put last-name first, followed by first-name, and separated by comma.

Type ( [0-9]*) ([^ ]*) (.*) in find what box, , in replace with box.

Replaced!