Notepad++ attempting to find specific text within brackets

[cs Davis]

Hello,
I am attempting a search with Notepad++
I am trying to find all lines that include finished and LOGN_LEVEL_1[-1]
sample line below

02:20:11.054|gis.dovv    |lert |overout.lsp   |0105|"unearthing du upon finished: DUPIL[2180500000001874] GLYY[1743142790.88] bred[ %%%%%% ] predi[12234143] NUTS[1573.51] LOGN_LEVEL_1[-1] MOTOR[1] "

I have tried (?i-s)^(?=.*finished)(?=.*LOGN_LEVEL_1[-1] ).+
but dosen’t seem to find.
Seems to me that there is something about the “[-1]”
Thanks

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[Terry R]

@cs-Davis
I’ve just moved your post to the “Help Wanted” category. Plugin Development was the wrong category for this question. Additionally if you were to read the FAQ post for how to correctly post examples so the posting engine doesn’t mangle them, please read this post.

Terry

[Alan Kilborn]

@cs-Davis said in Notepad++ attempting to find specific text within brackets:

Seems to me that there is something about the “[-1]”

Yep. You need to escape the square brackets, e.g. \[-1\]

[Terry R]

@cs-Davis said in Notepad++ attempting to find specific text within brackets:

Seems to me that there is something about the “[-1]

They are special, we call them meta-characters. There is a reference here . meta-characters need the escape character to make them “literal”. More reading about how to write regular expressions likely needed.

Terry

[cs Davis]

@Alan-Kilborn
Thanks Alan,
I did try

(?i-s)^(?=.*finished)(?=.*ATRI_LEVEL_1 \[-1\] ).+

might you see anything else that I might be missing?
Thanks for your suggestion

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[Terry R]

@cs-Davis said in Notepad++ attempting to find specific text within brackets:

might you see anything else that I might be missing?

In the first instance, why not load your expression and example data in regex101.com . Make sure the flavour of regular expression is PCRE, because the Boost regular expression engine (which Notepad++ uses) relates most closely with that, see this FAQ post.

Beyond that there is this FAQ post which has lots of links for support of regular expressions (all flavours).

Terry

[Coises]

@cs-Davis said in Notepad++ attempting to find specific text within brackets:

(?i-s)^(?=.*finished)(?=.*ATRI_LEVEL_1 \[-1\] ).+

might you see anything else that I might be missing?

Well, in the post, it looks like you typo’d ATRI for LOGN, but you probably didn’t do that in your test.

However, unless this is also a typo, the space between _1 and \[ would be interpreted as something that has to match; if, as in your sample data, there is no space, there can’t be one in your pattern, either.

[cs Davis]

@Coises
Thanks much Coises, dang too easy to overlook a simple space, its almost like trying to figure out a sound problem when it was the mute button that was hit.
Thanks again