HIghlight Hardware-Addresses ("MAC")

[NobsWare]

I tried to highlight a hardware address like 44:8a:5b:a1:e6:95 in a log of DHCP. I set the extended highlight delimiter to ’ ’ and ‘;’ and ctrl-doubleclicked.

Then I get grey highlight and no other occurances of the same MAC are highlighted. When I do the highlight “manually” with left-click and drag, it starts with a green highlight which switches to a grey highlight when crossing the first ‘:’ .

How do I configure NPP to highlight anything I want and highlight other occurances as well, regardless of what kind of characters are in the selection?

[gstavi]

Could not figure out what exactly you want to highlight but if I wanted to follow several MAC addresses or IP addresses in a log I would use:
right click->Style token
To apply style(s) to the addresses I care about.

[guy038]

Hello, @nobsware and All,

• Execute the Search > Mark... menu option

• Insert the regex (?i)(?:(?1):){5}([[:xdigit:]]{2}) in the Find what: zone

• UNtick the Bookmark line , if necessary

• Tick the Wrap around option

• Select the Regular expression search mode

• Click on the Mark All button

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To navigate between all these hardware addresses, use the two options :

• Search > Jump up > Find Style Ctrl+Shift+0

• Search > Jump down > Find Style Ctrl+0

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To suppress these Find highlighting, use the Search > Mark... menu option first, then click on the Clear all marks button

Best Regards,

guy038