Search characters if exist in any order with no spaces?

maxxsee

Hello!

I want to find all instances of certain characters together even if jumbled order with a fixed letter or string of letters at end

example

search for <+., or +<,. and so on, find all instances if contain
with the letter or string becomes
<+.,hello or +<,.hello
(don’t search for +< ., where the space fails the test)
to recap search for all characters in any order [<+.,]hello (with hello in order)

How does one do this in notepad++?

Would love to also only search beginning of lines of text (^\h* as is used in regular expression search)

Help is appreciated! Thanks

PeterJones

@maxxsee ,

Generic Regex: Logic Gates for Regular Expressions shows how to use logic in your search/replace, like requiring all the desired terms in no particular order, or one term or another, or other boolean-logic operators. So that should give you a place to start.

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maxxsee

@PeterJones said in Search characters if exist in any order with no spaces?:

Hi I did some digging into your text but sadly a bit too hard for me

These are the most I could do currently

([<+.,])(^ h)*hello

(?-s)(?:(?=.*[<+.,])(?=.hello))^.(?:\R|\z)

but neither produced the correct results - first one worked better but it found results with extra characters in the four characters which was unwanted

maxxsee

@PeterJones
actually did solve it by excluding line, wow… almost gave up

(?-s)(?:(?=.[<+.,])^.(?:\R|\z)(?=.hello))(?!.([aaa]|[bbb]))^.*
where the aaa and bbb are the characters not wanted in search results

feel free to post better simpler solution, thanks!

PeterJones

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