1. A look at the power of Regular Expressions for the layman Use in Notepad++ Anjesh Tuladhar http://anjesh.blogspot.com http://just-tech.blogspot.com

3. Remove numbers from the list of 1000 rows of names

4. Choose “Replace” from “Search” menu

5. You will get a replace dialog box.

6. Type [0-9]* (.*) in find what box, in replace with box. Note: There’s a space between [0-9]* and (.*).

7. Check Regular Expression checkbox to exploit regex functionality.

8. Hurray! Done.

10. Now you have to swap numbers and names, but separated by comma.

11. Type ( [0-9]*) (.*) in find what box, , in replace with box.

12. Replaced!

14. Now you have to remove numbers, put last-name first, followed by first-name, and separated by comma.

15. Type ( [0-9]*) ([^ ]*) (.*) in find what box, , in replace with box.

16. Replaced!