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@Anonymous-Guy , Looking at your data – I assume your sample is the data before the change: <contributor contributor_type_id="600">Kenda, Jani</contributor> <contributor_description>baskitarist</contributor> If you want to change the second </contributor> to </contributor_description>, that’s doable (though not exactly what you described) FIND = </contributor>(\s+.*)</contributor> REPLACE = </contributor>$1</contributor_description> However, I’m not sure you really need the </contributor> part of the match. If that XML snippet that we can see is representative of your data, the real problem is that you’re trying to get the closing tag to match the opening tag for <contributor_description>, which doesn’t seem to require the extra matching before. If you have more similar mismatches, but not all of them using the same tag, I would suggest a more generic one-line-matching search, which checks on a given line that the opening tag on a given line matches the closing tag (assuming there is a closing tag) (?-s)^\h*<(\w+)(.*?</)\K(?!\1)\w+> $1> EDIT: Oh, I see @dinkumoil chimed in while I was replying, with an expression that matches what I was thinking for “I’m not sure you really need the </contributor> part of the match” thought

@dipsi7772 said in Is it possible...?: want to search for a keyword + a variable I used both examples you provided in an attempt to extract JUST the “variable” you seek. I have succeeded insofar as the examples. My concern is that you probably have NOT provided clear enough examples, so in the “real” world situation you may find it does NOT work as expected. In the examples you provided the “variable” seems to be surrounded by quotes (of some type, there are many), and in another part of the example it has the “>” and “<” surrounding it. So in the absence of any further information I have had to assume that the “variable” is composed of numbers and letters, thus 0-9 and a-z (upper or lower case) ONLY! So see the first code block below showing what I tested my regex on and in the second block what running the regex produced. So the regex is (Search mode must be Regular expression and wrap around ticked): Find What:(?i-s)(^.+?password(.+)?[“>]+([0-9a-z]+).+?(\R|\z))|(.+\R|\z) Replace With:\3\4 So as a description of the regex: (?i-s) these will set “match case and “. matches newline” to required settings. This prevents your Replace settings possibly preventing my regex from functioning correctly. Then we start searching from the start of a line for the word “password” (case insensitive), so “Password” and passwoRD” would also work. After finding that string we continue so long as we do not encounter a quote and a “>” symbol. That’s where I’ve had to make some assumptions. Next we pass over those special symbols (quote and >) Then we start reading the “variable” portion (hopefully). Again, an assumption that it is comprised of ONLY letters and numbers. Then we continue reading to the end of the line (including the EOL character or end of file). Immediately after this search pattern we have a “|”. This denotes an alternate path we can take. So in the situation where the line does NOT contain a “password” string we use this alternate path. Finally we come to the replacement text. In this case we want the 3rd group (variable) and the 4th group (EOL or end of file). We send these back into the file. Everything else has been erased. As I stated earlier I am concerned that the limited examples you provided will likely mean this regex will fail. Because of this (and just beacuse you should when testing something new), I would strongly suggest running my regex on a COPY of your files, and then afterwards doing some spot checks. Terry Line1: bla bla bla bla "Password “1"” bla bla bla Line2: bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla Line3: bla "Password “22"” bla bla bla bla bla bla Line4: bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla Line5: bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla Line6: bla bla bla bla bla bla "Password “3"” bla /><br />password<br />target1</div> /><br />word<br />target</div> /><br />pass<br />target</div> /><br />password<br />target2</div> 1 22 3 target1 target2

@Hemant-Parakh said in vector <T> too long: 7.5.9 ( Try with latest version https://www.notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v7.8.2/