Search a files that contains multiple requested words.

[Sascheya Dragon Shikamaru]

I dont know how to express my self so that people will understand what I need, so I will make an example.
Lets say I have 4k files like this:

<ADDRESSID>2</ADDRESSID>
<DISTRICTTYPE />
<DISTRICTNAME />
<STREETTYPE />
<STREETNAME />
<POSTALNUMBER>999999</POSTALNUMBER>
<BLOCK />
<ENTRY />
<FLOOR />
<APNO />

And need to search for the file that has the ADDRESSSID 2 and the POSTAL NUMBER 23.
How do I do that?

[Scott Sumner]

@Sascheya-Dragon-Shikamaru

Assuming that your file repeats over and over something very similar to your sample, this could do it:

Find what: (?s)<ADDRESSID>2<.+<POSTALNUMBER>23<
Search mode: Regular expression

[Sascheya Dragon Shikamaru]

@Scott Sumner
First of all , thank you for your replay.
And, could you please tell me what Im doing wrong?
https://s31.postimg.org/4s5409f23/Screenshot_2.png

[Sascheya Dragon Shikamaru]

It looks like this works only if ADRESSID is first and POSTALNUMBER comes after, otherwhise I will need to swap them.

[Scott Sumner]

@Sascheya-Dragon-Shikamaru

From your screenshot, it appears you are searching for your data in the wrong order: you won’t find “ab” if you tell Notepad++ to search for “ba”…