Is there a way to do a multi-line find using the find-in-files feature? I have tried a number of find expressions and nothing works. Some examples of find text are:
some text\n more text
some text[^m]+
some text\n *more
All of these work within a single file, but not in the find-in-files dialog.
8.1.2: Find in files: regex multiline never matches
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ben_josephs
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I was addressing this in 8.1.2: Find in files: regex multiline never matches already, but without a useful reply.
Is there a reason why you edited your old post to look entirely the same?
I hope this limitation will be lifted in a future release, since matching multiple lines in a file find is needed every now and then (i.e. to exclude too many false positives).
Is there a reason why you edited your old post to look entirely the same?
I hope this limitation will be lifted in a future release, since matching multiple lines in a file find is needed every now and then (i.e. to exclude too many false positives).