[spiros]

I have a Greek text with some English words and I want to filter the lines which begin with capital letter, how would I do that?
For example, in Find/Replace I would do

\n[Ά-Ώ,A-Z]

with Match Case and Use Regular Expressions checked.
but if I select Regex in the filter the \n bit does not work.

[Patrick C]

Provided I didn’t mess up, the following should do

^[Α-ΩA-Z].*$

Where
^ start of string (i.e. line)
followed by a character within [Α-ΩA-Z]
followed by any character (except newlines) .
occurring zero or more times *
$ end of string (i.e. line)

Let me know if it does or doesn’t work.

Cheers

Patrick

PS The full syntax would be
/^[Α-ΩA-Z].*$/gm

[spiros]

This did it for me

^[Α-ΩΆ-ΏA-Z]

(I had to add “Ά-Ώ” so that it would get capitals with accents too)

Is there a way to show the number of lines filtered?

[Patrick C]

Regarding the number of lines filtered:

Option 1:
Use the “Word Count” plugin (Tools → Plug-ins → 9 WordCount)
Word count shows the total number of “Lines” and the “View Lines”, with the View Lines corresponding to the number of filtered lines.

Option 2:
Hit ctrl+a to select all.
The status bar in the bottom right corner will then show the number of selected lines.

[spiros]

Option 1: Takes ages to load…
Option 2: always shows the total number of lines for FULL file

[Patrick C]

As in the image:
Option 2:
Hit ctrl+a to select all lines, then the bottom right indicator shows the number of selected lines and the total number of lines.
Option 2 is fast in my case. There is one downside that Option 2 does add the last line to the count if it is blank.

PS Regarding option 1:
Yes, sadly sluggish performance is the case for large files.

[spiros]

I am working with a 500.000 lines file and Option 2 apparently works (in my case does not work at all, see screen) if “Word Count” plugin is active, which means… very slow performance. It was dead slow even with a 30.000 lines file.

[Yutaka Emura]

Hi Patrick C,
Regarding Option 2, I am not sure what you mean by “There is one downside that Option 2 does add the last line to the count if it is blank.”
Can you please clarify this sentence?

[Patrick C]

Hello Yutaka

I’ve now noticed, that word count does the same thing but the other way round.
What I basically meant is as follows:

Case where the last line is not blank:

Results in ctrl-a finding 13+1 = 14 lines instead of 13; Word count finds 13 view lines

Case where the last line is blank:

Results in ctrl-a finding 13 lines; interestingly Word count finds 14 view lines

[Yutaka Emura]

I fixed the issue with the number of selected lines incorrectly displayed in the status bar and the Word Count plug-in.
I also optimized the Word Count plug-in for speed, but if you need to speed up the plug-in, you might want to remove unnecessary queries such as Widths.
Also, queries using regular expressions can take much longer time than others, so should be removed if unnecessary.
Thanks,

[Patrick C]

Probably Spiros already knows, but if not (hope you get notified of follow up replies to this post):

Yutaka’s new Character count plug in is super fast and its ‘view line’ field shows the number of lines filtered.

Thank you Yutaka!
And btw: Also thank you for the DirectWrite implementation – I absolutely love it, the text is crispy clean and Emojis now work great too.

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