Searching two words on different lines

[Kyle Warren]

Hi,

I need to search for the word new_task and the word task_pending which is supposed to be 3 lines after new_task. How can i do this? Thanks for any help.

[guy038]

Hello, @kyle-warren and All,

Not difficult with regular expressions !

Two possibilities :

• The first regex (?-si)new_task(.+\R){3}.*task_pending searches for the range of any character between the two strings new_task and task_pending, with that exact case

• The second regex (?-si)^.*new_task(.+\R){3}.*task_pending.*\R? searches for the complete block of 4 lines containing, both, the strings new_task and task_pending, with this exact case

Best Regards

guy038

[Makwana Prahlad]

Hello,@Kyle-Warren

Please follow this information,To Searching two words on different lines

You need a new version of notepad++. Looks like old versions don’t support |.

Note: egrep “CAT|TOWN” will search for lines containing CATOWN. (CAT)|(TOWN) is the proper or extension (matching 1,3,4). Strangely you wrote and which is btw (CAT.*TOWN)|(TOWN.*CAT)

I hope this information will be useful for you.
Thank you.

[Alan Kilborn]

Like most of @Makwana-Prahlad 's posts, this one deeply confuses me.

You need a new version of notepad++. Looks like old versions don’t support |.

Misinformation, unless by “old” you mean pre-6.0.
But why would you assume OP is using a really old version anyway – the OP didn’t say what version, but…

egrep

What does that have to do with anything??

egrep “CAT|TOWN” will search for lines containing CATOWN.

What does that have to do what the OP is needing to do?

I could pick apart the rest of the posting, but it is getting tiring.
Just please, don’t spread misinformation.