Notepad Help

[(s)AINT]

(if wrong place please move)
I'm trying to edit a text document that allows me to find and replace lines that have different #'s:

IE:
Artillery Brigade 253
Artillery Brigade 254
Artillery Brigade 255
Artillery Brigade 256
Artillery Brigade 257
Artillery Brigade 258

to:
253th Artillery Brigade
254th Artillery Brigade
255th Artillery Brigade
256th Artillery Brigade
257th Artillery Brigade
258th Artillery Brigade

Do I need a different program than notepad?

[Akar]

I suggest notepad++, its far better than notepad for editing files.

[(s)AINT]

Thank You. That is a very good program. Can someone explain how to replace different #s?

[Thoragoros]

As Aka said, Notepad+ is a much better choice for anything code/scripting/programming related.

Also, Notepade+ is a comparatively easy to use tool if you are new to this.

NOTE

For all things techy, you might want to try the Basement

[(s)AINT]

Can a mod move this to the basement (along with my computer and bed )

[mp0295]

I dunno why, but I lol'd when I saw the title. Probably because notepad is one of the simplest programs in existence

[(s)AINT]

I dunno why, but I lol'd when I saw the title. Probably because notepad is one of the simplest programs in existence

I know. The file opens in notepad by default and I never really used other programs. Notepad is too simple, it can't do this simple task.

[(s)AINT]

Can A mod please move this to the basement?

[Legio]

Moved to the Basement.

[Ishan]

You can't do that in either notepad or notepad++ as far as i know you can bulk replace multiple occurrences of the same text like in the OP you can replace all the multiple occurrences of the word "Artillery Brigade" with something you like with the replace option (hot key CTRL+H). But you can't do that like you desire, that is move the different number(not identical) in front of them and then add "th".

[irishron]

It looks more like spreadsheet stuff but you need a macro to do it.
By the time you figure out a macro in something like Excel, you would have them done just changing them one at a time in Notepad.

[eisenkopf]

The search and replace function in Notepad++ lets you do a lot of stuff, including regular expressions. It's very powerful. But it cannot, by design, deal with a variable that changes from expression to expression. So the easiest way probably is to use a spreadsheet, as the others suggested, using the autofill functions: Create one column with the number, one with "th Artillery Brigade", and merge the two. Then you need to do a replace using "1th" to be replaced with "1st" and so on. No need for a macro, I think. Maybe your spreadsheet can automatically show numbers as ordinals, e.g. adding "st", "nd", "rd" or "th" as appropriate, so you can skip the replace task. The more elegant way is to script it, e.g. using Python.