Creating regular expression for multiple lines

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gkiers
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Creating regular expression for multiple lines

Post by gkiers »

Hi all,

I am trying to create a RE that would help me ignore a block of values that are printed over multiple lines. Say I have these:

file 1:
A
1 2 3 4
2 3
C
2

and file 2:
A
1 1 3 4
2 3
C
2


I would like to ignore all differences in the block labelled A. So I would create a RE that replaces all digits that come after A.
I would use \n for a line separator.

Search: A\n[ 0-9]*
Replace: A

Using Replace

But it does not work. Not even for the first line of the block. Any suggestions are more than welcome.

Kind regards, Gerrit

grigsoft
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Post by grigsoft »

Hello,
Unfortunately, currently this is not possible, since regexp are only processed on by-line basis.
This limitation will be removed in future. In next version I will probably add an ability to ignore text between two regexps.

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