Howt o remove minus character in multiple occurences in Notepad++

Question

I would like to remove a minus character before different numbers in a chain.

Percentage="-10000000000.00" Percentage="-999999.00" Percentage="-100000.00" Percentage="-52222222.00"

Percentage="10000000000.00" Percentage="999999.00" Percentage="100000.00" Percentage="52222222.00"

Does this answer your question? [Reference - What does this regex mean?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22937618/reference-what-does-this-regex-mean) — AdrianHHH, Feb 21 '23 at 22:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 21 '23 at 08:55

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Use Find and Replace (Ctrl + H)

So find: ="-

Replace with ="

Should then give you want you want based on your input / output cases listed.

answered Feb 21 '23 at 08:55

Tom Ruyter

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 26 '23 at 10:02

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I found this one:

search: Percentage="-(\d+\.\d+)"
replace: Percentage="$1"

edited Feb 26 '23 at 10:02

Tyler2P

answered Feb 21 '23 at 08:58

Eratik_ape

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 21 '23 at 08:58

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I suggest the following find and replace in regex mode:

Find:    Percentage="-(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)"
Replace: Percentage="$1"

answered Feb 21 '23 at 08:58

Tim Biegeleisen

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 21 '23 at 09:56

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You can search for the following regex with a lookahead pattern that matches a minus character that is followed by a digit:

-(?=\d)

And replace it with nothing.

answered Feb 21 '23 at 09:56

blhsing

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