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I searched a lot, but nowhere is it written how to remove non-ASCII characters from Notepad++.

I need to know what command to write in find and replace (with picture it would be great).

• If I want to make a white-list and bookmark all the ASCII words/lines so non-ASCII lines would be unmarked

• If the file is quite large and can't select all the ASCII lines and just want to select the lines containing non-ASCII characters...

Peter Mortensen

Well, it's still here after an hour, so I may as well answer it. Here's a simple filter that prints only non-ASCII characters from its input, and gives exit code 0 if there weren't any and 1 if there were. Reads from standard input only. For the best answers, search on this site Do your own HOMEWORK! Nobody here will do it for you. Basic format would be: main input text file or take from commandline filename.txt declare & set counters = 0 loop begin: read a character from the file (or line) go through each character and compare it to the ascii value of the character.

7 Answers

This expression will search for non-ASCII values:

Tick off 'Search Mode = Regular expression', and click Find Next.

Source: Regex any ASCII character

Peter MortensenProGMProGM

In Notepad++, if you go to menu Search → Find characters in range → Non-ASCII Characters (128-255) you can then step through the document to each non-ASCII character.

Peter Mortensen

In addition to the answer by ProGM, in case you see characters in boxes like NUL or ACK and want to get rid of them, those are ASCII control characters (0 to 31), you can find them with the following expression and remove them:

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In order to remove all non-ASCII AND ASCII control characters, you should remove all characters matching this regex:

Peter Mortensen

To remove all non-ASCII characters, you can use following replacement: [^x00-x7F]+

To highlight characters, I recommend using the Mark function in the search window: this highlights non-ASCII characters and put a bookmark in the lines containing one of them

If you want to highlight and put a bookmark on the ASCII characters instead, you can use the regex [x00-x7F] to do so.

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Cheers

Jean-Francois T.Jean-Francois T.

To keep new lines:

1. First select a character for new line... I used #.
2. Select replace option, extended.
3. input n replace with #
4. Hit Replace All

Next:

1. Select Replace option Regular Expression.
2. Input this : [^x20-x7E]+
3. Keep Replace With Empty
4. Hit Replace All

Now, Select Replace option Extended and Replace # with n

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:) now, you have a clean ASCII file ;)

Another good trick is to go into UTF8 mode in your editor so that you can actually see these funny characters and delete them yourself.

Gidon WiseGidon Wise

Another way...

1. Install the Text FX plugin if you don't have it already
2. Go to the TextFX menu option -> zap all non printable characters to #. It will replace all invalid chars with 3 # symbols
3. Go to Find/Replace and look for ###. Replace it with a space.

This is nice if you can't remember the regex or don't care to look it up. But the regex mentioned by others is a nice solution as well.

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