Regex: switch words position in notepad++

Question

I have text in the following pattern:

1 NAME word1 word2 wordn /words/
...
...
1 NAME word1 word2 wordn /words/

And I need a regex that will reorder it to:

1 NAME /words/ word1 word2 wordn
...
...
1 NAME /words/ word1 word2 wordn

I am trying to do this in notepad++ but can't figure out the regex to match n number of words until the character /

Please help!

Answer 1

Find: ([^ ]+) ([^/]+)/([^/]+)/

• ([^ ]+) Matches "name" as anything but a space into group \1 (followed by a space)
• ([^/]+) Matches "all words" as anything up until the first / into group \2
• /([^/]+)/ Matches anything between / and / into group \3

Replace With: /\3/ \2\1

Answer 2

Try

(?<=1 NAME )(\S+ ){n}/words/