<![CDATA[Help with regex: bug?]]>I feel like something is going wrong with my regex search in notepad++. It looks like a bug but I want to know if it’s a problem in my query. My query is highlighting something it is not supposed to.
My query:

\b([A-Z]([A-Za-z]*)\.[a-zA-Z_-][a-zA-Z_-]*)

essentially, it should start with capital letter, then have any letters after it, a dot, and then any function call name.
My query is highlighting an instance that doesn’t start with a capital letter and I don’t know how to stop it.
Wrongly highlighting:

session.issued

in

if session.issued==max_issued:

This happens with EnhanceAnyLexer and N++ search. Checking on online regex testers this isn’t the case: see regexr.com/7nu78
See screenshots too.
(I know that I can modify my query for [^=] to temporarily fix this, but that doesn’t solve the issue of unexpected regex behaviour.)
My version: 8.5.8
Would appreciate help here. Thanks!

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]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/25176/help-with-regex-bugRSS for NodeSat, 15 Aug 2026 18:26:56 GMTMon, 27 Nov 2023 08:18:05 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Help with regex: bug? on Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:42:43 GMT]]>

By default the regex engine is case insensitive meaning a-z and A-Z are the same.

it did not occur (to me) that a language like regex with separate options for uppercase and lowercase could have any case insensitivity enabled by default.

It actually isn’t case sensitive by default. But because the Notepad++ user interface to searching has a Match case checkbox, the state of that become part of the operation. If uncheckmarked when the operation starts, then, well…

For regex purists, perhaps always starting your regex with (?-i) – which overrides the state of the Match case checkbox – is the way to go.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90790https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90790Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:42:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Help with regex: bug? on Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:59:20 GMT]]>@Terry-R found. Fixed. Thanks for the info; it did not occur that a language like regex with separate options for uppercase and lowercase could have any case insensitivity enabled by default.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90788https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/90788Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:59:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Help with regex: bug? on Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:51:33 GMT]]>@Monospace-V
By default the regex engine is case insensitive meaning a-z and A-Z are the same. You need to use a modifier before the expression to make it see capitals only when using A-Z. Look at (?-i). Search posts on this forum as there are lots of expressions using this where the case is important.

Sorry I’m typing this on a phone so hard to find and post links

Terry

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