Something like "negative" search?

hobbycoder

Hey Community, can someone tell me if Notepad++ is able to list files with a negative search string.
I often use the feature to replace patterns in all opened files or in all files in a certain folder. But let’s say I have 111 files in a folder and a certain string is missing in 11 of them, can NP++ then show me which of these files are lacking that string and how can I do that?

Ekopalypse

@hobbycoder,

maybe with something like this: ^(?!.*this_is_not_included).*

You can find more information on this topic here.

Alan Kilborn

@hobbycoder

I would take the advice found HERE, and thus for the example @Ekopalypse started:

find: (?s-i)\A(?:(?!\Qthis_is_not_included\E).)+\z

Of course the search mode is Regular expression for this.

hobbycoder

@ekopalypse said in Something like "negative" search?:

^(?!.this_is_not_included).

Thx for your reply. Unfortunatly that seems not to work. I will look into the thread you mentioned.