signqosa.blogg.se - Notepad++ regular expression find

If it is left at "not found" then what was searched for by the user could truly occur in the data, and we have misled him by saying the search was unsuccessful. I think the "all occurrences are found" is the desired outcome.īut.sometimes it is not possible due to technological limits. These seem like two contrasting desires for behavior. instead of treating the find as failed (without search result)" In the "Actual Behavior" there's a phrase which leads me to believe what is being described there is really "Expected Behavior": Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

Path : C:\Tools\Npp\Npp_793\notepad++.exe Edit 3: This is dangerous, especially for replace operations.

If the distance between abc and def is too long, then the whole file is selected as search result.

An exact number cannot be given, because the internal error which occurs here is a stack overflow.

The def occurrences are found only as long as the distance between abc and def is shorter than 22000 to 64000 characters.

Edit 2: Not all occurrences of def, which are preceded by an abc, are found step-by-step.

Edit 1: If the search fails, then it should not select the whole file.

All occurrences of def, which are preceded by an abc, are found step-by-step.Search for the regular expression in line 2 of the test file: abc(.|\R)*?\Kdef, easiest with wrap around option on.Open the text file contained in this zip: BackslashK-Testfile.zip.If a regular expression search fails because of an internal stack overflow or a similar exception, the whole file is marked as search result.