Parenthesis around alpha characters, brackets around numbers, in one go

Asked Feb 18 '18 at 17:03

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I'm trying to put parenthesis around every character and brackets around every line using Regex in Sublime Text (actually, I don't mind which flavor, because I can always use regex101).

I want to do this in one go. I can do this in two steps, but is it possible in one?

My input:

awKJ38W3i

My goal output:

(a)(w)(K)(J){3}{8}(W){3}(i)

What I've done so far:

I've been able to create two groups, 1 and 2, which match characters and numbers:

([A-z])|([0-9])

([A-z]) : Matches individual alpha characters and set as group 1
|       : OR
([0-9]) : Matches individual numeric characters and set as group 2

Now the problem is during the replacing. I want to replace the [A-z] with $$1$ and the [0-9] with \{$1\} but simultaneously. How can I do this?

I tried replacing it with

\($1\)|\{$2\}

but that doesn't seem to be the correct syntax.

edited Feb 18 '18 at 17:33

Mad Physicist

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asked Feb 18 '18 at 17:03

zec

Can you do it in 2 passes? – Mad Physicist Feb 18 '18 at 17:10
No. I don't think Sublime allows evaluating conditional expressions in replacement strings – Bergi Feb 18 '18 at 17:10
You can do it in 1 pass using Notepad++. – Wiktor Stribiżew Feb 18 '18 at 17:46
@MadPhysicist I want to do this on multiple occasions, so it seems that doing it in multiple passes is a bit onerous – zec Feb 18 '18 at 18:01
@WiktorStribiżew could you kindly give me some direction as to how I could do this using Notepad++? – zec Feb 18 '18 at 18:02
Use `([a-zA-Z])|\d` and replace with `(?1$$1$:{$0})` – Wiktor Stribiżew Feb 18 '18 at 18:05
@WiktorStribiżew what does this part do?: `(?1 )` is the colon part of it? `:` like `(?:)` ? – zer00ne Feb 18 '18 at 18:20
It is a conditional replacement pattern. If Group 1 matches then... else... – Wiktor Stribiżew Feb 18 '18 at 18:27
If notepad++ see the docs http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_62_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/format/boost_format_syntax.html – Feb 18 '18 at 18:36
If you are fine with NPP, let's close with [this link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37160927/how-to-use-conditionals-when-replacing-in-notepad-via-regex). – Wiktor Stribiżew Feb 18 '18 at 18:38
@WiktorStribiżew All right, thanks. – zec Feb 18 '18 at 20:41

Parenthesis around alpha characters, brackets around numbers, in one go

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