Help required with regular expression
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Hi all, I am trying to extract fields from lines like this;
La Bohème 3’40|(J. Plante/C. Aznavour)|Georges Guétary|1966 EMI Music France|Édit. Djanik Music
Here is the regular expression I try (I know there are superfluous patterns):
^(.*)\d\'.*\|.*\|(.*)\|.*\|.*$I have tested my regex on the site regex101.com and whatever the flavor it gives me the correct result but in Notepad++ it keeps saying “cant find the text …”
I am sure I am doing something wrong but can’t think what it is!
Thanks in advance
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Whenever I get this problem, break apart the expression and build it up slowly. Much easier to see where the problem lies. Also suggest using
.*?as a non-greedy capture. Also make sure the DOT character includes line ending option not ticked or better, use(?-s).
I’m on phone so can’t actually assess your expression.Terry
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@Terry-R Oops, I knew it was simple, just the
\'which should not have been escaped. And on the site regex101.com only the “Rust” flavor pointed it out !!!
Thanks anyway for the tips …
