How can I do a search that results including/highlights the file name, the folder and the HDD name?

pellelin

Hello!

I have created a Notepad++ file with 452036 lines (36,1 MB) of textfiles, from HDD directories, folders and files.
Folders have this in folder name --=[ (any letters, numbers following)
Drives have their names like this [ A ] [ WD-1 ] etc.
Here some screendumps of HDD and folders.

The directories are in 5 levels of subdirectories.
Each HDD is named [ A ] [ B ] or [ WD-1] [ WD-2 ] etc. and file names, like filename.jpg, filename.txt etc.
Doing a normal search I can find the folder, files or HDD drive name, but not listed together in the same search.

How can I do a search that results will include and highlights the file name, the folder and the HDD name [ WD-1 ] [ WD-2 ]?
So if I do a search like this:
filename
I would like to get the result that includes
filename, folder and in what [ ] HDD drive the file and folder sits.

I don’t know if this can be done but it would be of great help if it could.
As of now I have to scroll forever to find the right HDD…

Thanks and best regards,
pellelin

PeterJones

@pellelin ,

Your vague descriptions of text don’t make it clear to me what your text is actually like.

Could you use the ``` notation (from the </> button on the post toolbar) to put some example text? Like

```
[ A ] blah blah blah filename blah blah
[ B ] blah blah blah notsamefile blah blah
[ WD-40 ] is good for cleaning hardware
```

which will render like

[ A ] blah blah blah filename blah blah
[ B ] blah blah blah notsamefile blah blah
[ WD-40 ] is good for cleaning hardware

In the mean time, assuming you wanted to highlight the entire line that includes specific filename, it could be done with:

FIND = (?-s)^.*filename.*$
SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression

If you actually only want to highlight part of each line, you’re going to have to give example text that reasonably matches your actual data, and then do a screenshot showing which you’d like to highlight given a specific search example.