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Pro

^start of line

Group 1(`{3}.*[\n\r][^]*?^`{3})

`{3}the literal ` (96₁₀ / 140₈ / 60₁₆) , repeated exactly 3 times

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Character Class[\n\r]

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

[^]*?any character, including newline, repeated any number of times

^start of line

`{3}the literal ` (96₁₀ / 140₈ / 60₁₆) , repeated exactly 3 times

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

26 tokens

Regular Expression

^(`{3}.*[\n\r][^]*?^`{3})

New

Find: `^(.*)`
Replace: `Prefix-\1`

```
1
2
3
```

Into:

```
Prefix-1
Prefix-2
Prefix-3
```

Thanks. That’s handy, but I’m not likely to remember it (regex not my thing), whereas an action can be named and easily run.

I’ve been thinking about this for while. It’s similar to other Drafts actions I’ve written, so I took some of that code and built [this](https://actions.getdrafts.com/a/17N).

Extraction

Find: `^(.*)`
Replace: `Prefix-\1`

```
1
2
3
```

Into:

```
Prefix-1
Prefix-2
Prefix-3
```

Thanks. That’s handy, but I’m not likely to remember it (regex not my thing), whereas an action can be named and easily run.

I’ve been thinking about this for while. It’s similar to other Drafts actions I’ve written, so I took some of that code and built [this](https://actions.getdrafts.com/a/17N).