Seach a word and pick the 100th result

Tarık

I search a word in my notefile and i find 15000 results now I want to locate where is the 100th result in my notefile. How can i detect it ?

Terry R

@Tarık
may I direct you to this posting.
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16104/how-to-find-and-highlight-a-specific-occurance-of-a-symbol

The question there fits what you are trying to do. Have a go using that information. If in doubt come back to us with what you have tried and also an example of the data if possible. Real data/examples are ALWAYS so much better to help out posters.

Terry

guy038

Hi, @tarik, @terry-r and All,

From any starting point, in file, the generic regex (?s)(?:.*?(X)){N}.*?\K\1 will find the Nth occurrence of X, where X can be, either :

A simple character
A word => The regex \b<Word>\b
A string of characters
A regular expression

For instance, the regex (?s)(?:.*?(\bthe\b)){9}.*?\K\1 would find, from current location, the 10th occurrence of the article the

Cheers,

guy038

Tarık

@guy038 said:

(?s)(?:.?(\bthe\b)){9}.?\K\1

Thank you for kindly answers. I don’t know where can I use this command in notepad++.

Scott Sumner

@Tarık

Move your caret/cursor to the place where you want to start seeking the Nth match from
Invoke the Find dialog by pressing ctrl+f
Select Regular expression as the Search mode
Put an expression such as @guy038 's in the Find what zone
Tick the Match case checkbox if you want to…umm…only match the case of your text in the Find what
Press Find Next button

Does that make it clear?

Tarık

Thank you all!

guy038

Hi, @tarik, @scott-sumner, @terry-r and All,

Thanks, Scott, for your additionnal information. Look like I was a bit tired to develop ;-))

Of course, as Scott mentioned, your can, either, perform a sensitive to case OR a insensitive to case search, with the respective generic regexes :

(?s-i)(?:.*?(X)){N}.*?\K\1 ( Sensitive )
(?si)(?:.*?(X)){N}.*?\K\1 ( Insensitive )

Cheers,

guy038