help with formatting a text with regex

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Hello,
I have a text which is formatted like this:
1- John (went-goes-go-gone) to school every day.
I need this to have the look of mutiple choice like this:
1. John ...... to school everyday.
a. went
b. goes
c. go
d. gone

can you help me with that, please?

Posted 14-Nov-14 10:24am

Hamdi Sultan

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Nov-14 16:26pm

Not clear. This is has nothing to do with "formatting". If this is related to natural language processing, natural language grammar and syntax, it looks like, it looks like, looking at regex is just not serious.
—SA

PIEBALDconsult 14-Nov-14 16:45pm

Possibly. But I don't have time to think about it at the moment. Interesting puzzle, though.

Hamdi Sultan 14-Nov-14 16:51pm

Thank you for your interest. I wish you could help me D:

Nelek 14-Nov-14 17:30pm

Are all the lines following that structure?
I mean always (word1-word2-word3-word4) ???

Hamdi Sultan 15-Nov-14 12:32pm

yes.

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PIEBALDconsult · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-14T11:31:00

Solution 2

If there are always four options in that format...

Pattern: ^([^(]+)$([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^)]+)$(.*)$
Replace: $1 ____ $6 \r\na. $2 \r\nb. $3 \r\nc. $4 \r\nd. $5

Input: 1. John (went-goes-go-gone) to school every day.

Result:

1. John  ____  to school every day. 
a. went 
b. goes 
c. go 
d. gone

Posted 14-Nov-14 11:31am

PIEBALDconsult

Updated 14-Nov-14 12:15pm

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Matt T Heffron 14-Nov-14 19:56pm

+5.
Interesting problem.
It looks like it is formatting a multiple choice test.
In this example, both a and b are correct!

Hamdi Sultan 15-Nov-14 12:45pm

solution 2 by :PIEBALD works fine with the first row (sentence) . However, I have ten sentences in the original format. the regex did not make the changes to the rest of the nine sentences. thanks for help.

Nelek 15-Nov-14 13:20pm

Are you sure they really are the same format?

PIEBALDconsult 15-Nov-14 14:05pm

Try the Multiline option.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regexoptions(v=vs.110).aspx

Hamdi Sultan 16-Nov-14 10:10am

PIEBALDconsult: thank you very much for your help. I fixed the problem. using the regex above. when I click the replace option in notepad++ there is an option to check or uncheck "matches newline" I uncheked it and it worked line by line. thanks for help