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Themis Beris
Themis Beris

Reputation: 990

Notepad++ Any Character

Does anyone know how to search something like this in the search box of Notepad++ ?

ID. 213

Debt: 13 $

I want this to be searched like :

"ID. (don'care for the number/any character),newline, Debt(don'care for the number/any character)"

Upvotes: 8

Views: 43028

Answers (2)

Toto
Toto

Reputation: 91385

How about:

ID\..*?Debt:

Don't forget to enable . matches newline

explanation:

(?^:ID\..*?Debt:)
The regular expression:

(?-imsx:ID\..*?Debt:)

matches as follows:

NODE                     EXPLANATION
----------------------------------------------------------------------
(?-imsx:                 group, but do not capture (case-sensitive)
                         (with ^ and $ matching normally) (with . not
                         matching \n) (matching whitespace and #
                         normally):
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  ID                       'ID'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  \.                       '.'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  .*?                      any character including \n (0 or more times
                           (matching the least amount possible))
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Debt:                    'Debt:'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
)                        end of grouping
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Upvotes: 1

Tim Radcliffe
Tim Radcliffe

Reputation: 1883

Turn on regular expression mode in Find, with ". matches newline" enabled:

Search for:

ID\.\s.*[\n]+Debt:\s.*$

Older versions of Notepad++ have difficulty matching multi-line regexes, be sure to have version 6+ Notepad++ for this to work.

Upvotes: 6

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