Regex to find any lines that do NOT have a specific number of a character

[Alan Kilborn]

@Mark-Yorkovich said:

Alan’s exp doesn’t match anything in my file

Well, if I copy and paste your “lorem ipsum” data (above) into a new tab and then run my regex (above) on it, I get lines with exactly 9 pipes redmarked, which I thought was the goal (or the inverse of the goal):

So…I really don’t know where the disconnect is…

[Alan Kilborn]

@Mark-Yorkovich said:

…finding all of the new line/line feed characters - only in those now-bookmarked lines - and replace them with some other character (spaces, dummy chars, whatever) to get each of those records to be on one line

Didn’t we do all this the other day?

[Allen Bai]

(.|){9}.

how about this?

[Ekopalypse]

@Allen-Bai

I assume you meant (.\|){9}.
This matches 9 and more pipe delimited lines.

[Allen Bai]

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[Allen Bai]

@Ekopalypse said:

@Allen-Bai

I assume you meant (.\|){9}.
This matches 9 and more pipe delimited lines.

in fact, I mean…

（。＼｜）｛９｝。＊

but it can’t show correctly, and I don’t know how to put screenshot

[PeterJones]

@Allen-Bai said:

it can’t show correctly,

To quote my boilerplate:

This forum is formatted using Markdown, with a help link buried on the little grey ? in the COMPOSE window/pane when writing your post. For more about how to use Markdown in this forum, please see @Scott-Sumner’s post in the “how to markdown code on this forum” topic, and my updates near the end. It is very important that you use these formatting tips – using single backtick marks around small snippets, and using code-quoting for pasting multiple lines from your example data files – because otherwise, the forum will change normal quotes ("") to curly “smart” quotes (“”), will change hyphens to dashes, will sometimes hide asterisks (or if your text is c:\folder\*.txt, it will show up as c:\folder*.txt, missing the backslash).

For images: upload image to imgur. embed images with the syntax ![](http://i.imgur.com/QTHZysa.png). (please use imgur’s “direct link” with i.imgur.com as the hostname and the appropriate .png or .gif extension, rather than the “image” link, which really links to the HTML-wrapper, and will not embed in the forum)

[Allen Bai]

@Allen-Bai said:

(.|){9}.

how about this?

in fact, I mean
（。＊＼｜）｛９｝。＊

[PeterJones]

@Allen-Bai said:

in fact, I mean
（。＊＼｜）｛９｝。＊

Then why not put it in tick marks? Both the help I linked to and the “how to use markdown code” post explained how to do that, as did my boilerplate text itself.

• `(.*\|){9}.*`

renders as

• (.*\|){9}.*

[Allen Bai]

ah…

understand now, thank you so much

[guy038]

Hi, @mark-yorkovich, and All,

See my very late regex solution , below :

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/47905

Best Regards,

guy038