I tried installing the compare plug-in and after auto-restart the compare plug-in was still not there. So next time I did a manual restart and it worked.

Hi, @vasile-caraus,

Now, I realized that the regex, given in my previous post, (?i-s)(Word1).*?(Word2)|(?2).*?(?1) could be simplified !

Indeed, as I explained, we can’t use back-references, which are not defined if the regex engine choose the second alternative ! But, when the boundaries Word1 and Word2 are not, themselves, regexes ( as, for instance \d+, a..z… ) and rather simple strings, we can use the more simple syntax below :

(?i-s)Word1.*?Word2|Word2.*?Word1

Secondly, to select any entire line ( with its EOL characters ) containing the two words Word1 and Word2, whatever their order, use the regex, below :

(?i-s)^.*(Word1.*Word2|Word2.*Word1).*\R

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

As we’re rather dealing with exact words, we should use, instead of the two above, the regexes, below :

(?i-s)(?<=\W)Word1\W.*?\WWord2(?=\W)|(?<=\W)Word2\W.*?\WWord1(?=\W)

and

(?i-s)^.*\W(Word1\W.*\WWord2|Word2\W.*\WWord1)\W.*\R

@John-Pilge

Your technique works most of the time, but there are limits to how much text you can put into the “Find-what” box. As an example on the above text, it ALMOST but not quite will handle it all. For me, it will do the text from the start up until "All parcels will ".

@Terry-Weiss

Open the nppexec console and type help press enter.
Then you get the full list of supported commands.

For your question,
make sure no internal messages has been checked in nppexec menu
and do something like this

This would save the output of the current python program to a file C:\test6734.txt
which then can be printed out regarding to your needs. For example by using
npp_open <file> to load the file and using npp_menucommand <menu\item\name>
to print it or using the print command from the cmd shell to do so. …

Cheers
Claudia