Find all occurrences

gcotterl · Post by **gcotterl** » Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:07 am

Is there way to find the number of times "are" occurs in this list:

are are thi
thi are are
are are are
are thi are
thi thi thi
thi thi are
are are thi

The result should be 12

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:03 am

Search | Replace... (<F8>):

Find what: \bare\b
Replace with: are

[X] Regular expression

Replace All

The number of replacements is displyed in the status bar.

You can undo the replacement to keep your editing history in good order.

gcotterl · Post by **gcotterl** » Mon Jun 04, 2018 2:10 pm

Thanks!

gcotterl · Post by **gcotterl** » Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:49 pm

Is there way to find the number of times "goat" occurs in this list:

goat goat thi
thi goat goat
goat goat goat
goat thi goat
thi thi thi
thi thi goat
goat goat thi

The result should be 12

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:53 pm

Didn't I already answer that?

gcotterl · Post by **gcotterl** » Wed Jun 20, 2018 8:03 pm

Yes.

It worked when the string is 'are' but not when the string is 'goat'

(The error says: "Invalid back reference: specified capturing group does not exist. The error occurred while parsing the regular expression:

'\g>>>HERE>>>oat\b'

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:11 pm

Not
\goat\b
but
\bgoat\b

\b matches a word boundary. It stops are maching in, for example, claret.

gcotterl · Post by **gcotterl** » Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:37 pm

Thank you

Post by **AmigoJack** » Fri Jun 29, 2018 11:40 am

Alternatively use the "Mark all" button, which will also print in the status bar how often it matched.

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:34 pm

No it doesn't. It shows how many lines were marked, not how many matches were found, despite its indicating otherwise.

Post by **AmigoJack** » Mon Jul 02, 2018 2:21 pm

You are right, didn't know this. Looking into the manual (speak: help file) however it's already explained as "marks every line" instead of every "occurance". This should be fixed (status bar should also use the word "line") and enhanced (another button called "count matches").