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I have a list of various unrelated strings on separate lines in Notepad++.
127.0.0.1
badwebsite.com
dontgohere.com
How do I use Notepad++ to create something like the below?
{"blocked":true,"flagged":true,"string":"127.0.0.1","javaClass":"com.untangle.uvm.app.GenericRule","name":null,"description":"127.0.0.1","readOnly":null,"id":null,"category":null,"enabled":null}
I basically want to copy the contents of the line to use again. First, I need to prepend it with this:
{"blocked":true,"flagged":true,"string":"
Next is the original line contents:
127.0.0.1
Then, I would insert the following content:
","javaClass":"com.untangle.uvm.app.GenericRule","name":null,"description":"
Afterwards, the original contents of the line would be repeated:
127.0.0.1
Finally, I would append it with the following:
","readOnly":null,"id":null,"category":null,"enabled":null}
I do know that I would use the replace feature with regular expression to search for ^ and replace with whatever I want at the start of the line and I would search for $ and replace with whatever I want at the end of the line. Unfortunately, I don't know how to repeat the contents of a line while inserting a string.

Answer 1

In Notepad++ you can use Replace with regular expression enabled and find:
^(.+)$
which finds a set of characters between the start and end of a line and stores them in a capture group which we can refer to using $1 in the replacement string:
{"blocked":true,"flagged":true,"string":"$1","javaClass":"com.untangle.uvm.app.GenericRule","name":null,"description":"$1","readOnly":null,"id":null,"category":null,"enabled":null}
Output:
{"blocked":true,"flagged":true,"string":"127.0.0.1","javaClass":"com.untangle.uvm.app.GenericRule","name":null,"description":"127.0.0.1","readOnly":null,"id":null,"category":null,"enabled":null}
{"blocked":true,"flagged":true,"string":"badwebsite.com","javaClass":"com.untangle.uvm.app.GenericRule","name":null,"description":"badwebsite.com","readOnly":null,"id":null,"category":null,"enabled":null}
{"blocked":true,"flagged":true,"string":"dontgohere.com","javaClass":"com.untangle.uvm.app.GenericRule","name":null,"description":"dontgohere.com","readOnly":null,"id":null,"category":null,"enabled":null}