Notepad++ snippets

How to find spaces into field names in Notepad++

Let say you have the following query:

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SELECT [Name],[Population],[Area km3]
FROM cities
WHERE Area='EU'

and you want to find if any of the field names contain any space.

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To do this in Notepad++, you can just hit CTRL + F for Find window and the select the following:

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  • Find what: “(?<=\[)(\w+) "
  • Flag Regular expression
  • Do not flag . matches new lines

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