Find 'Not Found' Matches in list

Fern99

I am trying to search for ‘string’ (ex:‘var’) +‘X digit of numbers’ (ex: 4) from 0000 to a specified value’ (ex: 1999).

var0000
var0001
…
var1999

I am trying to find which ones are not found in all of the opened files in Notepad++.
(or the first one that is not found)

I tried this with multireplace, but I was not successful.
I am asking here for help if there is a way to do this and how.
Thanks.

guy038

Hello @fern99 and All,

I think that the regex, below, should work properly !

It will list, in the Find Results panel, all the files which do NOT contain any string from var0000 to var1999, at any position, in files.
Foe each file listed, It will highlight the very first character of current file.

FIND (?s-i)\A(?=.*var[01][0-9]{3})(*SKIP)(*F)|\A.

Remark : Do NOT use the almost identical regex (?s-i)\A(?=.*var[01][0-9]{3})(*SKIP)(*F)|\A, without the final regex dot . ! There’s, somehow, a bug, as running successively this pseudo-regex does NOT return the same results !

Best Regards,

guy038

Terry R

@guy038 said in Find 'Not Found' Matches in list:

I think that the regex, below, should work properly !

I think you have the wrong interpretation of the question.

I see it like the numbers from 0000 to 1999 exist except say 0002 and 0007. OP wants whichever is the first missing number.
Let’s say it is 0007.

I think this can only be solved by a programming language such as pythonscript.

Terry

PS actually it has to be 0002 if testing in numerical order. OP needs to expand on detail.