Marking lines immediatelly after marked lines

Mortaza Azizi

hello friends, How can I mark 1 line next to the lines containing a specific word?

guy038

Not difficult with regular expressions !

Let’s suppose we would like to mark any line containing the license string, as well as the lines just below each line which contains the license string, in the usual license.txt file, part of any N++ package :

Open the license.txt file in Notepad v.7.5.4
Open the Mark dialog ( Search > Mark… menu command )
Check the Bookmark line, Wrap around and Regular expresion options
Check the Match case option, if necessary
UN-check the Purge for each search option
Type in (?-s).*license.*, in the Find what: zone
Click on the Mark All button
Type in (?-s)license.*\R\K.*\R, in the Find what: zone
Click, a second time, on the Mark All button

Et voilà !

Notes :

As usual, the modifier (?-s) means that any dot character will match a single standard characters, only
In the first regex, the part .*license.* matches any line containing the string license
In the second regex, the part license.*\R matches the remaining of the line, beginning with the string license, with its End of Line chars
Then, the \K syntax forces the regex engine to forget any previous match
So, the final regex is, simply, .*\R, which matches the entire contents of the next line. Note that the \R syntax, at the end of the regex, which matches the line-break characters, is needed, when this next line is a true blank line !

Best Regards,

guy038

Mortaza Azizi

Hello @guy038
Thanks for your comprehensive reply to my question.