Hello Dan,
Indeed, you’re perfectly right about the Up radio button. it’s definitively greyed out :-(
However, here is a work-around :
Make a first search of your regex, with the Find Next button
Close the Find dialog, with the ESC key
Simply, use the shortcut SHIFT + F3, by default, to perform a regular expression search, upwards
Or use the key F3, by default, to execute a search, downwards
REMARK : Due to the structure of regular expressions, the different matches, of your regex, may be quite weird, while searching in an upwards direction !
Just consider, below :
SUBJECT string : 12345 This is a 123456789 simple text
REGEX Search : \d
If the cursor is at the end of the subject string, every use of the shortcut SHIFT + F3 matches the digit 9, then 8, 7, and so on… Quite logical isn’t it ?
Now, let’s consider the same subject string and the other regex, below :
SUBJECT string : 12345 This is a 123456789 simple text
REGEX Search : \d+
Again, place the cursor at the end of the subject string. After a first SHIFT+ F3, the string 122456789 is matched. Still correct !
However, successive uses of the SHIFT +F3 shortcut, matches, successively, the string 12345678, then 1234567, 123456, till the unique digit 1. Now, using SHIFT + F3, again, it would match the string 12345, at the beginning of the subject string. Supplementary hits, on SHIFT + F3, would match the strings 1234, 123,… till the digit 1.
The differences of behaviour, of the regex engine, are quite obvious !
Best Regards,
guy038
