@javier-rivas, taking in account your additional information, my regex becomes :

MARK (?s-i)^\x20\x20"caup":.+?(?=^\x20\x20"cues":)

This regex :

• Matches the literal string "caup":, preceded with two space characters ( because of \x20\x20 ) beginning a line, ( because of ^ ), with this exact case ( because of the (?-i) modifier )

• Followed with the smallest ( because of ? ) non-null ( because of + ) range of any character ( because of (?s) modifier )…

• But ONLY IF followed with the literal string "cues":, preceded with two space characters ( because of \x20\x20 ) beginning a line, ( because of ^ ), with this exact case ( because of the (?-i) modifier ).

Note that the (?=......) syntax is a look-ahead structure, in other words a condition, which must be true in order the present match, so far, to be valid but which is never part of the overall match

Thus, in the text below :

  "caup":
-{
-adad
-adasd
-asdad
-}
],
  "cues":

It would mark and bookmark all the lines but the last one !

Cheers,

guy038

there should be a cut mark and and replace mark that would be awesome

That would be nice I suppose, but in practice it is not so bad without it.

I’d like to see two separate commands: Begin Select and End Select. That way it would be easier to abort a begin-point by setting a new one (if you realize you’ve made a mistake in setting the origin), and it could also be a reminder in the menu that you haven’t yet set the begin point (Begin Select would be enabled and End Select would be disabled).

BUT…it is definitely OK the way it currently works. And a downside of two commands is that using it from a shortcut would require two shortcuts to be allocated.

Speaking of shortcuts, one thing that is lacking is tying this handy functionality to a shortcut by default. I tie mine to Ctrl+b.

first to find is “caup”, and it starts with 2 spaces in front of it
last to find is “cues”, and it needs to stop 2 spaces before the “cues”

—“caup”: < ---- it highlights the spaces and the code
-{
-adad
-adasd
-asdad
-}
], < ------- it stops right here
—“cues”: < ----- it ignores the spaces and the code

so now it’s perfect to my standards

Learn what it does, for yourself for the future:

• match Cod1 exactly
• .+? match any single character (the dot means “any single”), one or more times (the + means 1+ times), but as few times as needed (the ? specifies that)
• match Cod2 exactly

All 3 of these things must exist for you to have an overall match.

could it also highly the Cod 1 and Cod2, I know I said between, but I thought it would find the Cod1 and Cod2 and include it

find: Cod1.+?Cod2

@Javier-Rivas OK the first regex worked, now to test on my real txt file

Are you talking to yourself? :-)
Convincing yourself that it really does work?? :-)

You just need N++ version 7.9.1 or greater.

so that I can copy … that out to another notepad

If you highlight the text using either @Ekopalypse or @guy038 methods, you’ll want to use the Copy Marked Text button after.

… or cut …

There is no Cut Marked Text capability – maybe there should be?

I think that a more accurate regex would be :

MARK (?s-i)^Cod1\R\K.+?(?=^Cod2\R)

Because :

• The (?-i) ensures that search of the limits Cod1 and Cod2 are done with case respect

• The lazy quantifier +? is needed if several sections Cod1.......Cod2 exist in a same file

• The start of line assertion ^ and the EOL characters \R ensure, for instance, that the line Cod2 will not be matched, either, in lines XXXCod2, Cod2XXX or XXXCod2XXX

• The \R syntax, after Cod1, prevents from marking the line Cod1, too

Best Regards,

guy038

Keep in mind, holding shift, and scrolling down is not an option, it’s way to long

Check out the Edit menu’s Begin/End select feature. Invoke it once to set a “beginning” position (you get no visual indication that you’ve done this). Sometime later, when you are somewhere vastly different from you starting point, invoke that same command again. This looks up your previously-set beginning position and creates selected text between there and your current position.

If this is your real data then you can do a regular expression search (?<=Cod1).+(?=Cod2)