How to find 1st occurrence in line of: ,"", and replace with: ," ", using Notepad++ with regex

Question

I want to replace the 1st occurrence on each line using Notepad++ find/replace with Regex.

Find: ,"",

Replace with: ," ",

In other words, insert 2 spaces between the 2 double quotes.

How do I do this?

Solution

You can do it as following regex.

• Find what: ,"",(.*)$
• Replace with: ," ",\1
• Search Mode: Regular expression

Input:

this is a ,"", here and another is here ,"", at the end
next ,"",,"", here ,"",
another one ,"",
,"", last one

Expected result:

this is a ,"  ", here and another is here ,"", at the end
next ,"  ",,"", here ,"",
another one ,"  ",
,"  ", last one

Comments

[user3229980]

Thanks for this AFSHIN. I found a different solution Find what: (^.*?)\K,"", Replace with: ," ", but this only works if you click Replace All. Yours is defiantly a better solution