Question

input:

______ - Copy (12)
______ - Copy (5)
______ - Copy (254)

and so on
to:

a12a
a5a
a254a

or in other words to replace what’s before and after the number with “a”

I am using Notepad++

Thanks,

Answer 1

Search for

^.*\((\d+)\).*$

and replace with

a\1a

This assumes parentheses around the number. If those are not necessarily present, use this as a search string (with the same replace string):

^.*\b(\d+)\b.*$