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You are right.
My mistake was that when I copied your RegEx I picked up a trailing 'space' character which caused the malfunction.

It seems to be a quirk of the Forum that it allows you to pick up a 'space', that shouldn't actually be there, when you copy a line!
Thanks for your quick response!

Using Version 7.09 (32 bit) of TextPad, I created a Macro to Search for the Video URLs in a YouTube Channel page. I copied the Source HTML and pasted it into TextPad and then did the following: Ctrl-Home Find: ^\s+href="(/watch\?v=.+)" Mark all (Bookmark line) Search > Bookmark > Inverse Bookmark ...

ben_josephs' solutions work fine EXCEPT when the numbers fall at the end of a line. \< and \> anchor the expression to the start and end of a word but this FAILS at the end of a line. Hence we need the following: \<0*(20[1-9]|2[1-9][0-9]|[3-9][0-9]{2}|[1-9][0-9]{3,})($|\>) to accommodate this ...

I was reporting a bug in the Portable Wizard and thus situated at: http://www.textpad.com/support/textpad.php When I clicked on the link to the Forums, I was taken to: http://www.textpad.com/forum/index.php The lack of an 's' at the end of the word 'forum' meant I was greeted with a 404 error page ...

Thanks for pointing out the solution to this problem - although it would seem more sensible for TextPad to default to saving files with a Byte-order Mark and having an option to relinquish it. The issue for me is that you have a file that conforms to an accepted standard and TextPad overrides it by ...

there's no workaround (except to re-type the text you'd searched for previously).

Of course there is a very, very easy workaround that you have missed in your exasperation!
Just click on the "Find what" drop-down box and there is a list of the 10 previously searched-for strings!

When you use TextPad to open a *.reg file in the Unicode Format, and save it (even without any editing) then the Registry Editor refuses to entertain it thereafter because it now sees it as a binary file. The following is a typical error report: The specified file is not a registry script. You can ...