Notepad++ RegEx question

Smudge the cat

mkupper

I wrapped the user name list in (parentheses) so that the RegEx system knows that the list of user names is a sub-expression. Without the parentheses it would be doing a match for 2025-02-12.*Soradesuu or one of the other user names but without the date in front of it.

If the thing is split over two or more lines then you can use
^Date: 2025-02-12\R(.*\R){0,3}User: (Soradesuu|SetoKaiba|Karumi|Ahmetgojo1905|Marfrey2|Darksy|Kenzushiyato|Krombex|Atarikafa|Castial06|Jawaxdd|Aroxwex|Niwsuax|Sauron80|Kazim_donmez)

I added several things.

\R matches the end of a line.
(.*\R){0,3} matches zero to three lines where we don’t care about the content.
^Date: with the ^ matches the word Date: at the start of a line. I don’t need a ^ in front of User: as we are already at the start of a line.

That will allow for matching record where the date line is 1 to 3 lines before the user line. The {0,3} restriction is to prevent a match where you have Date: 2025-02-12 in the file and a few million lines later is a User: line with one of the people you are interested in.

Hopefully that’s enough to get you started with a RegEx that makes sense to you.

Smudge the cat

@mkupper The first one you’ve wrote worked wonderfully, thank you for your response and the help, I really appreciate it! Have a nice day ദ്ദി( • ᴗ - ) ✧

guy038

Hello, @smudge-the-cat, @mkupper and All,

@mkupper, if we’re certain that each record contains, both, the 2025-02-12 date and a name, an other solution could be :

FIND / MARK (?-is)(?=.*2025-02-12)(?=.*(Soradesuu|Setokaiba|.......|Sauron80|Karim_Dommez)).+

In other words, it would match, from beginning of line, all the line contents ONLY IF, BOTH :

It contains the 2025-02-12 date
It contains a name of the list, with the same case, between parentheses which can be re-used as ${1}, if necessary

Best Regards,

guy038