Question

EDIT: It was some issue with Notepad++’s regex engine. The regex worked fine in Python.

I’m working in Notepad++. I tried to make a regexp that would transform this (if you’re curious, it’s a Spanish guide for a game):

*Acero: En la Estatua de Gabomba
**Absorbe PV de un enemigo

To this:

====Acero====
*En la Estatua de Gabomba
*Absorbe PV de un enemigo

I came up with this, but it doesn’t match the text:

\*([^:]+): ([\w ]+)\n\*\*([^\n]+)

Am I missing something obvious?

Answer 1

It seems that Notepad++ cannot find line breaks in regex mode. You’ll have to replace the line breaks with, say, |, in extended mode, apply the regex on your new string, then replace the |s with line breaks.