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"Search" help
Submitted by ELockhart on Friday, 7 July, 2006 - 12:42
I am relatively new to jEdit and using the "Search" feature. I have reviewed the jEdit Help under Regular Expressions but I am having trouble trying to construct a search that would find the word or string 'Folder' at the beginning of a line and also contain the string 'UT120AP' within the line, disregarding all other text contained within the line.

Can some please help? Also, is there documentation of sample regular expressions I might learn from?

Thanks in advanced,
Eric
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Solution and recommendation
by vlashua on Sat, 08/07/2006 - 15:08
^Folder[^\n]*?UT120AP

^ (Only look at beginning of line)
Folder (literal)
[ (begin group of possible character(s) in this position)
^ (negate this group of characters--anything but these characters)
\n (new line code -- don't want to catch a new line before "UT...")
] (end the group)
* (expect "0 or more" characters like the one to the left)
? (limit the search to the first occurance of whatever follows)
UT120AP (literal)

Recommendation
The key thing about Regexs is that "there is always a simpler way". You need to spend an hour "getting" the jEdit help page category by category and, one at a time, trying the options out on a file in jEdit. How do you get to Carnegie Hall ... practice, practice, practice.

Google//: Regular Expressions Examples
http://www.regular-expressions.info/examples.html

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"Search" help
by Axel on Fri, 07/07/2006 - 19:55
Hello Eric,

the REtest-plugin:

http://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?RETest

and its associated help file could be interesting for you.

Regards,

Axel
The search string is: "^Folde
by Robert Schwenn on Fri, 07/07/2006 - 19:41
The search string is: "^Folder.*UT120AP".
Try this Tutorial

Robert
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