Notepad++ Find strings 50 characters or longer between two vertical bars

Question

I would like to ask for help with the regular expression to use in Notepad ++ that will find any text that is 50 or longer, and is between 2 vertical bars?

Example:

060801113494|I am writing a string that is longer that 50 characters|1054.70|2020-12-10 10:27:20|My Test|10511078

I saw some examples and have this version, but it is not working:

 \|(?:(?!\|).){50,}

The string can contain special characters.

Thank you, Erasmo

Answer 1

The pattern \|(?:(?!\|).){50,} matches the leading | and does not make sure that there is a closing one.

You can match a pipe, then forget what is matched so far and continue matching 50 or more chars other than a | while asserting one at the end.

\|\K[^|]{50,}(?=\|)

Explanation

• \| Match a |
• \K Forget what is matched so far
• [^|]{50,} Match 50+ times any char except |
• (?=\|) Positive lookahead, assert a | at the right

Regex demo