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Just realized there's no multiline regex in Textpad. That should be fixed ASAP IMHO.

Do you mean a regex that will match across a newline? try \n

abc
def
abc
ghi

so "abc\ndef" will match line 1-2, but not 3-4
and "abc\n.*\nab" will match line 1, 2, and part of 3

Or do i misunderstand your issue?

If you need to match a fixed number of newlines you can use \n.

But TextPad's regex engine doesn't allow a \n to be quantified with a * or +, or to be contained in a parenthesised expression. So you can't match an arbitrary number of newlines.

ben_josephs wrote:If you need to match a fixed number of newlines you can use \n.

But TextPad's regex engine doesn't allow a \n to be quantified with a * or +, or to be contained in a parenthesised expression. So you can't match an arbitrary number of newlines.

And backreferences do not work across lines as well.

Hi ben and Mud,

"parenthesized" and "backreferences"

I ran into those issues this morning, came here to edit my post, but found you guys were all over it. Thanks!