Find two words on a line?

bevhoward · Post by **bevhoward** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 10:36 pm

Is there a regular expression that will work within TextPad to find two or more words (strings) on a line that are separated by other words?

For example, find instances in files where "passport" and "expire" are contained in any line such as;

Your passport will expire on...

Tinkered with \W+ but was unsuccessful.

Thanks in advance,
Beverly Howard

ak47wong · Post by **ak47wong** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 11:39 pm

To search for "passport" followed by "expire":

Find what: passport.*expire

To search for "passport" followed by "expire" followed by "renew":

Find what: passport.*expire.*renew

bevhoward · Post by **bevhoward** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 12:08 am

Find what: passport.*expire

DOH!

Thanks!

Beverly Howard

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 7:18 am

And to find lines containing passport and expire, that is, passport followed by expire or expire followed by passport:
passport.*expire|passport.*expire

This assumes you are using "Posix" regular expression syntax:

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bevhoward · Post by **bevhoward** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 12:32 pm

This assumes you are using "Posix" regular expression syntax:

Thanks... very useful, but I assumed that achieving that was going to be too much to ask.

Reviewing the default/posix differences, it does not look like setting that will make a difference in my use of searches.

Thanks,
Beverly Howard

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:09 pm

They differ in the backslash-quoting of |, (, ), { and }.

The regex I suggested has a | in it.