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Pakspul
Pakspul

Reputation: 648

Notepad++ search with "Bookmark line" option doesn't bookmark all the lines that match a multi-line regex, but only the first one

I want to filter everything from a log that belongs to a particular user. With the following pattern, and the ". matches newline" option enabled, I can match everything that I am looking for, but when I ask Notepad++ to bookmark these line so I can copy them, something strange happens.

([^\n]+)userB(.+?)(?=([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}))

In front of line 2 and 8 I see a bookmark icon, but the lines: 3,4,5 and 9,10,11 are missing an icon, although they belong to the highlighted text.

Why does Notepad++ highlight the text, but doesn't place the bookmark correctly? And more importantly, how can I fix this?

Here is the log that I am using:

2015-03-02 11:28:44,993 INFO  application [http-0.0.0.0-8080-17]            userA     99:7 12345 some message
2015-03-02 11:28:45,468 WARN  application [http-0.0.0.0-8080-9]             userB     12:2  some message
extra information
    at some.classes.and.function(Filename.java:123)
    at some.classes.and.function(Filename.java:123)
2015-03-02 11:28:44,993 INFO  application [http-0.0.0.0-8080-17]            userA     99:7 12345 some message
2015-03-02 11:28:44,993 INFO  application [http-0.0.0.0-8080-17]            userA     99:7 12345 some message
2015-03-02 11:28:45,468 WARN  application [http-0.0.0.0-8080-9]             userB     12:2  some message
extra information
    at some.classes.and.function(Filename.java:123)
    at some.classes.and.function(Filename.java:123)
2015-03-02 11:28:44,993 INFO  application [http-0.0.0.0-8080-17]            userA     99:7 12345 some message

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1922

Answers (2)

Sivan
Sivan

Reputation: 33

(Editted to be an answer.)

At least in the current version of Notepad++ the macro halts while the switch dialog box appears when using the macro solution and switching tabs.

You must first go to settings, MISC., document switcher, and disable both check boxes. This is at least true in v7.6.

Upvotes: 0

Chris G
Chris G

Reputation: 86

The following will extract the information you want without using bookmarks and should work in Notepad++ version 6.9.1 onwards.
It assumes that the lines of extra information don't start with a digit.
It deletes the copied lines from the data file so work on a copy of the data file if you want to preserve it.
It is not very efficient because the switch tab command positions the cursor back at the start of a tab's text.
It duplicates the last match for userB. (A minor irritant!)

Description

1) Define shortcuts for switching to next & previous tabs
2) Open the data file with Notepad++
3) Open a new tab then go back to the data file tab
4) Define a macro `Cut User data. Paste in next tab`  
5) Run the macro `Cut User data. Paste in next tab` on the data file to `end of file`
  (It needs to be run once prior to running it in `Run a Macro Multiple Times`
  because of a quirk of Notepad++)

Method

1) Settings Shortcut Mapper Main menu
Switch to previous document = Ctrl+Alt+Left
Switch to next document = Ctrl+Alt+Right
Close

2) Open data file with Notepad++

3) File New Ctrl+Alt+Left

4) Start Recording
Find Find what: .+ userB.+\r\n(\D.+\r\n)*
Search Mode = Regular expression
Find Next Alt+F4
Ctrl+X Ctrl+Alt+Right
Ctrl+End Ctrl+V Ctrl+Alt+Left
Stop recording
Save Current Recorded Macro
Name: Cut User data. Paste in next tab OK

5) Macro Cut User data. Paste in next tab
Run a Macro Multiple Times
Macro to run: Cut User data. Paste in next tab
Run until end of file = Yes
Run then when it has stopped Cancel

Upvotes: 1

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