@PeterJones said in Find in all files: You should not be using Notepad++ to try to search proprietary binary data formats @Mrr-Jack said: I didnt apply any filters. I would guess a LOT of Notepad++ users do this (perhaps unintentionally), because they want to search a directory full of files, but only care about hits in certain ones. They ignore what they don’t want in the visual results. They do this because it is too much trouble to specify an include/exclude filter. Or, they simply don’t know about the exclude feature, or possibly there are directories in the tree that are not reasonably possible to exclude. All of these situations could lead to searching a large stray binary file that might cause a crash as being discussed in this thread. :-(

Hello @texaskcfan, @Peterjones, @terry-r and All, @texaskcfan, if I assume that : Your list contains one record per line The field separator is the comma, located right after the previous field and right before the next field Any field is, either : Any text, between two double quotes, beginning a line, possibly preceded with blanks characters and followed with a comma, as "xxxxxx", Any text, between two double quotes, itself surrounded by two commas, as ,"xxxxxx", Any text, between two double quotes, preceded by a comma and ending a line or the very end of current file, as ,"xxxxx"CRLF The following regex, containing a recursive pattern, will find all the zones between two commas, which contains an even number of " ( double-quote characters ) : (?x) (?:^\h*|,) (?: ( " (?: [^"\r\n,]++ | (?1) )* " ) )+? (?=,|\R|\z) For instance, given this sample, that you’ll copy in a new tab : "0","0","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "Field1","Field2","Field3","Field4","Field5","Field6","Field7","Field8","123 Main "St AptD"","","Dallas","TX","12345","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" "Field1","Field2","Field3","Field4","Field5","Field6","Field7","Field8","This fie"ld is NOT correct","","Dallas","TX","12345","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","" ," abcde","","ijk "123"," 987 "This is"a small""pie"""ce of"text for" tests" !!","","abc"de"fgh"ij","12345" " abcde","","ijk "123"," 987 "This is"a small""pie"""ce of"text for" tests" !!","","abc"de"fgh"ij","12345" "","","",","","","","" ","","","","","" " """ """ """ " " " " """ """ " 1234567890","","","","","" " abcde","","ijk "123"," 987 "This is"a small""pie"""ce of"text for" tests" !!","","abc"de"fgh"ij","12345" Open the Mark dialog ( Ctrl + M ) Paste the above regex in the Find what: zone Preferably, tick the Purge for each search option Possibly, tick the Wrap around option Select the Regular expression search mode Click on the Mark All button => All the fields ,........, containing an even number of " ( thus any correct field ), are marked in red style. This means that any zone, still unmarked, contains an odd number of double quotes, probably indicating one " character, too many or too few ;-)) Note that, for a correct scanning process of the text, the regex marks from the comma, before each zone "....." till the ", right before the next comma ! You may, as well, use the Find dialog to visualize each correct field, one a a time ! Here is a snapshot of the sample, after the mark operation : As you can see, all the fields non marked are incorrect in some ways and need examination. Note, also, that it’s impossible build up a regex in order to get the opposite logic, i.e. which would match the general case of any zone, between two commas, containing an odd number of double quotes inside ! Best Regards guy038

@PeterJones said in can I have drag n drop text disabled?: I wouldn’t be surprised if the drag-and-drop of text is defined in the Scintilla component, It most certainly is. One can have a look at Scintilla’s Editor.cxx and search for inDragDrop to see some of the code. I cannot (say) that I’ve accidentally done a drag-and-drop on selected text… Never happened to me. Best advice to @Kara-Kitai : Just live with it the way it is.

Should probably note here that what is displayed may also be affected by this setting in the Preferences :