Guy, I wanted to credit you for the search code in my original post but all I had here was the bare code in a .txt file, w/out any links to its origin, and it didn’t include the trailing |\z.

Glad you got me straightened out, and I really appreciate the code bit explanations you took the trouble to provide in your reply to Shayne Z in October.

Jim

I wrote this post, below, as a reply to Shayne Z., on the beginning of October :

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/10607/anyone-can-help-with-this-regex/5

As you spoke, in your post, of some particularities, about this reply, I just did some tests, again and I can’t see anything wrong !?

You have to un-check “. matches newline” for it to work.

Normally, you don’t have to bother about this option because I added, the modifiers (?s) and (?-s), on purpose, as these internal settings have PRIORITY on a possible .matches newline option, set by an user.

If ‘Replace’ is left empty the line before ABC and the line after XYZ become one

I can’t reproduce this behaviour. For instance, given the text, below :

12345
This line contains the ABC string
Bla, bla, bla...
This line contains the XYZ string
67890

and the S/R below :

SEARCH (?-s)^.*ABC(?s).*?(?-s)XYZ.*(\R|\z)

REPLACE NOTHING

I, as expected, got the text, after replacement :

12345
67890

But I may have forgotten something obvious ! So, just give me some examples which doesn’t behave as you would expect to. we’ll certainly find out the possible problems :-)

Best regards

guy038

If ‘Replace’ is left empty the line before ABC and the line after XYZ become one. To keep them separate, do a Replace with a new line character. (Easy way to do that is simple copy the invisible new line character between adjacent lines of text in the doc you’re working with and paste it into the Replace field. You won’t see it there, but it is.) 'hope this is helpful for regexp newbies like me.