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I have a list of emails, and I want to change the two letters before "@" and the first letter after "@" using Notepad++.
For example:
username@yourdomain.com
becomes
userna**@*ourdomain.com
loveman2019
Posted 2019-03-15T08:02:12.357
Reputation: 109
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Menu "Search" > "Replace" (or Ctrl + H)
Set "Find what" to ..@.
Set "Replace with" to **@*
Enable "Regular expression"
Click "Replace All"
Before:
username@yourdomain.com
After:
userna**@*ourdomain.com
DavidPostill
Posted 2019-03-15T08:02:12.357
Reputation: 118 938
DavidPostill thanks,it worked for me. – loveman2019 – 2019-03-15T08:17:05.260
I'd say it should be .?.@. as there might not be two characters before @. – n0rd – 2019-03-16T18:55:11.820
1@n0rd The question specified two characters, but you are correct if there is only one. – DavidPostill – 2019-03-16T19:07:39.190
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You can do this by using a regex search/replace.
At the bottom, select Regular Expression.
In the Search for entry, you type in: ..@.
In the Replace with, you type in **@*
Then press the button Replace All
This works because Regex searches will only replace if its search criteria matches exactly. The match is explained as follows:
..@. There are 3 dots and an @:
@ has no special meaning in regex so it means a literal @. . means any character, exactly once. By writing .. it means 2 characters of any kind, as long as there are 2 characters.
LPChip
Posted 2019-03-15T08:02:12.357
Reputation: 42 190
9Just an obvious remark, the concrete example you gave shows how useless this pattern would be to anonymize email addresses. It’s usually better like x****@y*.com – eckes – 2019-03-15T11:11:32.823
@eckes would that even be possible in N++? – WELZ – 2019-03-15T17:13:06.270
3@WELZ Yes but its more work, a half working sample would
(.)[^@]*@([^.]).*(\.[a-z]+)use 3 capture groups which you can address in the replace with string:\1***@\2***\3- uses a fixed number of mask characters but this is actually good. – eckes – 2019-03-15T18:17:34.900