Search fails

hatsa tsaa

I have a big music database file in txt mode. When I see artist’s name in internet and copy the name to clipboard to search if I already have that artist in my database, the search could occasionally fail, but if I write it, the search could probably succeed.

Alan Kilborn

@hatsa-tsaa

music database

That really adds no helpful information for us to provide any more help to you. We are open to helping if something more is provided.

guy038

Hello, @hatsa-tsaa, @alan-kilborn and All,

I agree, Alan, that if you select a multi-lines text, then copy it in the clipboard, with Ctrl + C and finally paste it, with Ctrl + V, in the Find what: box, only the first line of your text is written, in that input box !

However ( and luckily ! ), if you just select a multi-lines text, then open the Find dialog, it does write this multi-lines text, inside the Find what: box, assuming that :

The total amount of text is between 1 and 2046 chars long
The option Settings > Preferences... > MISC > Don't fill find field dialog with selected word is not ticked

So, @hatsa-tsaa, you may use this method :

First paste the artist’s name in your current database file, opened in Notepad++
Select, again, this artist’s name
Hit the Ctrl + F shortcut, whatever the state of the Find dialog ( open or closed )
Finally, click on the Find Next button

=> You should get matches, if your database contains this artist’s name, of course !

Best Regards,

guy038

Alan Kilborn

@guy038

I was just giving a “for example” when I cited multiple line data. We don’t know that this is the case for the OP.

hatsa tsaa

@guy038 said in Search fails:

guy038

Thanks guy038!

Your method doesn’t work either.
I don’t mean multiline text.
Is there also some kind of html or css code in clipboard, when copying from web site and pasting it to input box? Because, when I write the search term, I get matches.

Thanks!

hatsa tsaa

There is html code. When I copied phrase “Jimi Hendrix” from a web page and then I pasted it with Paste HTML content to Notepad++, I got this:

Version:0.9
StartHTML:00000173
EndHTML:00000329
StartFragment:00000207
EndFragment:00000293
SourceURL:moz-extension://13d61562-b74f-4d46-9793-e72234da2bf4/reader.html
<html><body>
<!–StartFragment–><h1 class=“post-title”>Jimi Hendrix </h1><!–EndFragment–>
</body>
</html>

That’s why I didn’t get matches.

guy038

Hello, @hatsa-tsaa, @alan_kilborn and All,

Of course, from your example, below, copied in a new N++ tab :

Version:0.9
StartHTML:00000173
EndHTML:00000329
StartFragment:00000207
EndFragment:00000293
SourceURL:moz-extension://13d61562-b74f-4d46-9793-e72234da2bf4/reader.html
<html><body>
<!–StartFragment–><h1 class="post-title">Jimi Hendrix </h1><!–EndFragment–>
</body>
</html>

This following regex S/R :

SEARCH (?s-i)Version:.+"post-title">(.+?)\h*<.+</html>

REPLACE \1\r\n

would change all this multi-lines text into the artist’s name, only :

Jimi Hendrix

However, does your browser have a plain-text reading mode that displays plain text ? I suppose that selecting the artist’s name would give you just the string Jimi Hendrix !

Best Regards,

guy038

hatsa tsaa

@guy038 said in Search fails:

plain-text reading

Thanks guy038!

I use mainly Firefox. Probably there’s addon to do the trick.

guy038

Hello, @hatsa-tsaa, @alan_kilborn and All,

I always use an old Firefox version for Win XP : Firefox ESR v52.9.0 ( 32 bits )

Here is main page of the Le Monde newspaper, in normal mode :

And here is the same page in Plain-text reading mode :

The tooltip “Passer en mode lecture” means "Switch to reading mode" and “Quitter le mode lecture” means "Exit Reading mode" !

Best Regards,

guy038

hatsa tsaa

Thanks guy038 for the tip!