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It would be great if it were possible to specify richer regular expressions when performing a 'search' or 'find and replace'. Specifically, non-greedy matches (such as abc.+?def) appear to be currently impossible. [ In a perfect world, there would be full support of all perl regex, but perhaps that ...

Thanks for your response. That's a shame. The example you give will work in some simple situations, but not for the cases i have in mind - i'd really need proper non-greedy matching. I could potentially write an external tool to do the pattern matching but i wouldn't know how to select/highlight the ...

Can someone tell me how i can perform non-greedy matching using textpad?
for example, I'd like to change my pattern from to to turn it into a non-greedy pattern.
However, this doesn't appear to work.
Do i need to escape the '?' symbol?

Thanks