Multi-Line Search Add-On

MrSpock:

That's strange. I have tried your very example and had no difficulties. Sure you haven't overlooked something?

Try if you can get it to work with this:

Quote:

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Hmm ... you are right. Your RegEx matches the example sentence correctly when the file starts with it, like this:

1969 - the year man landed on the moon
1969 - the year man landed on the moon

(Matches twice, as expected.) But it doesn't when there is anything before the string.

Looks like there is still a bit of work to be done with Regular Expressions, to be honest I didn't put it through very much testing.

The Regular Expression support is from MS VBScript regular expressions, so I wonder if there's some difference between that syntax and other regex.

I'll keep you all posted with new developments.

No need to hurry. Your extension is already very helpful in its present state. Again, thanks for sharing it with the community.

phdesigner:

The Regular Expression support is from MS VBScript regular expressions, so I wonder if there's some difference between that syntax and other regex.

Some informations about RE in different languages could be found e.g. at
www.regular-expressions.info

Here's a vote for using Perl compatible regular expressions....

This is neat. Could this be used to "Search / Replace in Files"? I've got whole folders full of files I'd like to use this on.

Thanks again for the new version, Paul;
1.2.8
www.phdesign.com.au

The modeless dialog is really great.
Some small issues I found in this version are the shorcuts: Alt+S, Alt+R ... don't seem to work in my installation; Esc is fine.

Replace operations with RE still have problems if using metacharacters; all occurences are highlighted correctly, but get not replaced, like in the previous version.
This will probably need some more time to tune up.
Keep up the excellent work!

Thanks for the script, phdesigner!

Are you taking feature requests?
Can you add a new option, for "multiple line search & replace"?
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It will search for text of n-line from 'search Text' window,
and replace it with text of n-line from 'replace with' window.

bugs:
like vbr already mentioned, there is a prob with metacharacters/regular expressions, phreplace finds them, but it wont replace them.
p.s.
can you add a button for listing and inserting regular expressions into search field? (just like [?],[!] buttons of original PSPad search dialog)

Also your script doesnt seem to like my windows theme:
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(never had this problem before, in any other app...)

Hi Dash,

I don't quite understand what Muliple Line Search & Replace Option would do sorry.
You should be able to search by multiple lines, and replace that search with multiple lines already. The only exception is regular expressions, which I haven't completed properly.

I like the idea of [?],[!] buttons for regular expressions, will try to incorporate this into a new version.

That screenshot from your windows theme is really weird, never seen that before. Not really sure how I'm going to be able to test it, but maybe I'll google it and see if anyone else has had that issue with another vb applications

Some of the known bugs in version 1.2.8 are:

* If phReplace is open and you start a new editor (either a blank document or open an exisiting one) then try to do a search it will throw an error.

* Can't use the replace function when searching for regular expressions.

* Alt-S and Alt-R don't work - haven't checked this myself but should a quick fix.

* Various Regular Expression bugs, such as not matching a line if there is text before it, not handling /n correctly.