Find All Words in Line Containing Specific String

Mayonnaisu

Hello everyone,
So I tried the regex I found here to do what I want. But it only finds the first match of each line if the lines contain more than one of the same word. I want it to find all of the words.

This is the regex:

(?-s)string.*?\K"word1"

And here is the sample text with expected matches in bold:
string@[“word1”]
string@[“word1”, “word1”, “word3”]
strong@[“word1”, “word2”, “word3”]
string@[“word1word2”, “word3”]

Could anyone please help me…

Alan Kilborn

@Mayonnaisu

Try:

Find: (?-si:string@\\[|(?!\A)\G)(?s-i:(?!\\]).)*?\K(?-si:"word1")
Search mode: Regular expression

For background on this technique, see HERE.

Mayonnaisu

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Mayonnaisu

@Alan-Kilborn
Thanks for the reply.
I tried your regex, but it doesn’t work unfortunately.

Alan Kilborn

@Mayonnaisu said:

I tried your regex, but it doesn’t work unfortunately.

On this text:

And here is the sample text with expected matches in bold:
string@["word1"]
string@["word1", "word1", "word3"]
strong@["word1", "word2", "word3"]
string@["word1word2", "word3"]
Could anyone please help me...

A Find All in Current Document using my regex produces this:

which is, I believe, exactly what you said you were looking for…

Mayonnaisu

@Alan-Kilborn
Ah, my bad. You’re right. It turned out that the quotation marks I copied from the code text and plain text here are different. Hence, no match was found. Thank you so much for this!

Alan Kilborn

@Mayonnaisu

Hmm, in your original post, you used a code block for your regex but no code block for your data. Hence you knew about code blocks; seems a pity you didn’t code-block your sample data, originally.

Ah, maybe the explanation: You skipped the code block for the data because you wanted to put bold in the data.

Okeee…

guy038

Hello, @mayonnaisu, @alan-kilborn and All,

As you’re doing a per line search, you could use the simplified generic regex, below ( also described here )

SEARCH (?-s)(?-i:string@|(?!\A)\G).*?\K(?-i:"word1")

Or, if we use the free-spacing mode, (?x), for a better lisibility :

SEARCH (?x-s) (?-i: string@ | (?! \A) \G ) .*? \K (?-i: "word1" )

To test this functional regex :

Copy this text in a new tab :

string@["word1"]
string@["word1", "word1", "word3"]
strong@["word1", "word2", "word3"]
string@["word1", "word2", "word1"]
STRING@["word1", "word2", "word1"]
string@["word1word2", "word3"]
string@["word1", "WORD1", "word1", "word1"]
string@["word2", "word3", "word1"]

Move the caret ( cursor ) at the very beginning of the file
Open the Mark dialog ( Ctrl + M )
SEARCH (?x-s) (?-i: string@ | (?! \A) \G ) .*? \K (?-i: "word1" )
Uncheck all box options
Select the Regular expression search mode
Click on the Mark All button
Possibly, click on the Copy Marked Text button to paste it afterwards, wherever you want, with a Ctrl + V command

=> This regex finds all the strings "word1", with that exact case, of each line beginning with the string string@, with that exact case too !

Best regards

guy038

Mayonnaisu

Hi @guy038,
Thank you very much for your reply. I really appreciate the additional solutions provided by you. They work like a charm!

guy038

Hi, @mayonnaisu and All,

If using the regex below, which would run a non-sensitive to case search, so an insensitive one (?i:...) :

SEARCH (?-s)(?i:string@|(?!\A)\G).*?\K(?i:"word1")

You should detect, of course, some more matches when run against my previous example !

BR

guy038

Mayonnaisu

@guy038

Awesome! Now, I have more solutions to the future problems at my disposal. Thanks!