Question

I have these html title tags with titles separated by some : (maybe two or three or four, or whatever), and I need to reverse their order like the following example:

<title>text1: text2: text3: text4 | sitename</title>

sometimes they are more or less : I mean more or less only text1, 2 ,3 or more than text4 separated by :

output:
text4: text3: text2: text1 | sitename

P.S. I use notepad++ and I need to edit this in bulk for many files..

Thanks,

Answer 1

This is possible via Notepad++ (I’m using version 6.1.2) but it’s not very pretty…

Using regular expression find replace you can do the following…

Find:

<title>(.*?)?: (.*?: )?(.*?: )?(.*?: )?(.*?: )?(.*?: )?(.*?: )?(.*?: )?(.*?: )?(.*?: )?(.*?) \| (.*?)</title>

Replace:

<title>$11: $10$9$8$7$6$5$4$3$2$1 | $12</title>

BUT it comes with a warning. This assumes that your list of :textA items will never be longer than 11 instances.