Notepad++ replace dots/punctuations that are alone not beeing surrounded by numbers

Question

I would like to find dots/punctuations not surrounded by any numerics or alphanumerics (in other words surrounded by nothing) and replace these with nothing using Notepad++ and regex.

I tried using

(?<![a-zA-Z0-9]).(?![a-zA-Z0-9])

but it replaces all the numbers surrounding each dot with nothing.

How can this expression be adjusted appropiately for use in Notepad++ ?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 27 '18 at 18:29

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You need to escape the . character:

(?<![a-zA-Z0-9])\.(?![a-zA-Z0-9])

answered Jan 27 '18 at 18:29

Nick

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