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    • Alan KilbornA
      Alan Kilborn @Javier Rivas
      last edited by

      @Javier-Rivas

      You just need N++ version 7.9.1 or greater.

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      • Javier RivasJ
        Javier Rivas @Alan Kilborn
        last edited by

        @Alan-Kilborn great, but the mark didn’t work, the data I used is an example, but to test the regex, I made a txt file and added Cod1 and many data between, and add Cod2. I pressed on all and found nothing. Marked nothing

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        • Javier RivasJ
          Javier Rivas @Javier Rivas
          last edited by

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

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          • Alan KilbornA
            Alan Kilborn @Javier Rivas
            last edited by

            @Javier-Rivas said in Find Begin/End setting:

            @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?? :-)

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            • Javier RivasJ
              Javier Rivas @Ekopalypse
              last edited by

              @Ekopalypse OK your code works, question, 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 as well

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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn @Javier Rivas
                last edited by Alan Kilborn

                @Javier-Rivas

                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

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                • Javier RivasJ
                  Javier Rivas @Alan Kilborn
                  last edited by

                  @Alan-Kilborn Perfect

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                  • Alan KilbornA
                    Alan Kilborn @Javier Rivas
                    last edited by

                    @Javier-Rivas

                    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.

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                    • Javier RivasJ
                      Javier Rivas @Alan Kilborn
                      last edited by Javier Rivas

                      @Alan-Kilborn OK, so I have improved the code search to my use so here is my original search
                      (?= "caup).+(?= "cues) < — notices the spacing and I removed the <

                      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

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                      • Javier RivasJ
                        Javier Rivas @Alan Kilborn
                        last edited by

                        @Alan-Kilborn Yes, I call it motivation…lmao
                        Yea, I wanted to add a comment and I clicked on reply to myself…hahahaha

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                        • Javier RivasJ
                          Javier Rivas @Alan Kilborn
                          last edited by

                          @Alan-Kilborn there should be a cut mark and and replace mark that would be awesome

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                          • Alan KilbornA
                            Alan Kilborn @Javier Rivas
                            last edited by

                            @Javier-Rivas said in Find Begin/End setting:

                            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.

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                            • guy038G
                              guy038
                              last edited by guy038

                              Hi, @javier-rivas, @ekopalypse and @alan-kilborn and All,

                              @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

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                              • Javier RivasJ
                                Javier Rivas @guy038
                                last edited by

                                @guy038 thank you

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