I forgot to add an image of how the function list parses the file with the configuration above:

https://pasteboard.co/HtPeByg.png

@Ronald-Fischer

I think the “differences” you are seeing are when the two backgrounds are in effect together–could this be right? For example if you double-click a word (or click+drag select an entire word), you get the “selection” background color as well as the Smart Highlighing color…at the same time. This looks like a third color, but it really isn’t. Of course, maybe I’m misunderstanding…

But the general answer…to this question… :

Can I somewhere change the colours of these backgrounds?

…is:

See Settings (menu) -> Style Configurator… -> Global Styles and then:

and

…adjust each one’s Background colour to your liking…

Hi, @Robin-cruise and All,

Of course, you may add these 3 look-aheads, consecutively, after the litteral \) ending parenthesis, as you did :

(?!;)(?![\}])(?![\{])

Indeed, while evaluating each condition, in each look-ahead, the regex engine location does NOT change ( It is just between the ) and its next character ! )

However, you can, also, use the unique look-head (?![;{}]) ! In addition, when inside a character class [....], the { and } braces are just literal characters :-))

Recall :

Inside a character class [....], 4 characters, only, have a special meaning :

The character ^, which must be at any position but the first, to be considered as literal or at any position if preceded with the \ escape symbol

The character ], which must be the very first character, after ], to be taken as literal or at any position if preceded with the \ escape symbol

The character -, which must be at the very beginning or at the the very end of the character class to be considered as literal or at any position if preceded with the \ escape symbol

The character \, which can be at any position of the character class, if preceded, itself, with an other \ escape symbol, to be taken as a literal character

All the other chracters, inside a character class [....], are just literal chars !

To sum up, assuming an unique block (.....) per line, the regex ^[^(\r\n]*\K\)(?![;{}])|\((?!(?-s).*\)) would find :

The ending ) parenthesis, if not followed with a ;, a } or a { character AND if a ( parenthesis has not been found, before, in current line

The starting ( parenthesis, if a ) parenthesis cannot be found, further on, in current line

Cheers,

guy038

@guy038

I tried a different keyboard and now the numpad shortcuts are working for the Find result panel.

While I was experimenting I noticed that even if I change the key assignment to SCI_ZOOMIN, SCI_ZOOMOUT, and SCI_SETZOOM in the Shortcut Mapper, only the original numpad shortcuts work in the Find result panel. I’m not surprised by this, just something to note…

Since I have a wheel on my mouse, I will just continue changing the zoom level in and out (of the two views and the find-result panel) that way. :-)

Hi, @anass-chawki, and All

Ah, OK ! The changes to do are not that important ;-))

From your last example, I, then, supposed that the match is the shortest range of characters between :

The literal string live/

A string made up of, at least, five consecutive digits

So, my two previous search regexes become :

SEARCH (?-s)(?<=live/).+?(?=/\d{5,})

and :

SEARCH (?-s)live/.*/([0-9]\d{5,})

Cheers,

guy038

P.S. :

I updated my two previous replacement regexes, which were misspelled !

The regexes look for the shortest non-empty range of characters ( .+? ), between the two limits, to avoid a wrong match against this kind of data :

http://mywebsite.net:8080/live/JHsN4SGBS7/2MOLFqluEk/102381.ts|user-agent=VLC/2.2.6 /123456LibVLC/2.2.6.

@JasonC

Does the “JSON file” part of this have any real significance?

Find what zone: <Iron>\d+</Iron>
Search mode: Regular expression

\d means any digit character (0-9)
+ means one or more of what precedes it
so in summary \d+ means one or more digits

For more, see this.

@Tom-Sawyer

Right-click the tab of one of the desired files and choose Move to Other View. Then, click the tab for the other file. Now both files should be active, but in two different views. If they are one-on-top-of-the-other instead of side-by-side, right-click the border between them and choose one of the options in the little box that pops up. After that the two files should be side-by-side. And the Synchronise menu options should be enabled.

I figured it out. The quotes were somehow changed to curly quotes and listed as delimiters. Sorry about that oversight…

@Rick-Pugh

Already discussed by @dail in this thread.

Hi @dail,

I’m sorry ! In my previous post, I just forgot to thank you for your… future reply ! So, I do ;-))

Cheers,

guy038

Do you mean your file contains a mixture of utf8 and non-utf8 characters?
Have you tried to convert the file encoding to the one of your non-utf8 characters and then back to utf8?
Hope it helps. mario

Hello, @donny-tee, and All,

If all your lines, beginning with the number 23, follow the same template, that’s quite easy, my President !

SEARCH (?-s)^23\x20.+

REPLACE 23 -0.308254 -0.007814 0.307166 -0.110578 -0.404637 -2.460353

Notes :

First, the (?-s) modifier means that the regex dot symbol (. ) matches a single standard character, only ( and not an EOL char )

Then the part ^23\x20 matches the number 23, followed with a space character ( you may replace \x20 with a true space )

Finally, the part .+ ( or .{1,} ) matches the non-empty remaining of each line, beginning with the number 23

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S.

It would be nice, President, if all your problems could be solved, in a similar way ;-)) Peoples and planet would just go on, living in peace !