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hello all,

I have to find a block of codes in order to replace it with another block of codes. The block is 200 lines.

do you have a tip?

Can you give us an example?

I do know that using TP's regular expressions on multiple lines is in most cases difficult.
The class [.*\n] for muliple lines does not work, at least not in version 4.7.2 and older.
(I may have to high hopes for version 5!)

thanks,
so here is sample of the code that I should replace

# MANDATORY MANAGEMENT ATTRIBUTES
field select ""
multiline false
edit false
name Name_ManagementInformation
label emxEngineeringCentral.Common.EPDMLabelManagementInformation
setting "Field Type" "Section Header"
setting "Registered Suite" EngineeringCentral
setting "Section Level" 1
order 1
#### ORDERING NUMBER & SUPPLIER
field select ""
multiline false
edit true
name Name_Row
label Row
setting "Field Type" "Group Holder"
setting "Group Count" 3
setting "Registered Suite" EngineeringCentral
order 2
field select $<attribute[attribute_EPDMOrderingNumber].value>
multiline false
edit true
name Name_OrderingNumber
label emxEngineeringCentral.Common.EPDMLabelOrderingNumber
setting Editable true
setting "Field Type" attribute
setting "Registered Suite" EngineeringCentral
setting Required true
order 3
field select $<to[relationship_ManufacturingResponsibility].from.name>
multiline true
edit true
name Name_Supplier
label emxEngineeringCentral.Common.EPDMLabelSupplier
range ${SUITE_DIR}/epdmEngrSearchDialogFS.jsp?form=editDataForm&field=Name_SupplierDisplay&fieldId=Name_Supplier&labelFindSearch=emxEngineeringCentral.Common.EPDMFindSupplier&baseType=type_Company&customizedSearch=search.customized.Supplier
setting "Access Expression" 'current == \"R&D Use Only\"'
setting Editable true
setting "Field Type" basic
setting "Registered Suite" EngineeringCentral
setting Rel_Linked_Type type_Company
setting Rel_Name relationship_ManufacturingResponsibility
setting Rel_Type to
setting Required true
order 4



note that for a shorter portion of code to find/replace, it works fine.

The basic technique for getting round the problem of reg expressions not coping with newlines is to convert all newlines to (say) ~. Do the substitution and then convert ~ to \n.

So there are three steps:
1. find \n, replace with ~~~ for example
2. find # MANDATORY MANAGEMENT ATTRIBUTES.*order 4, replace with your string
3. find ~~~, replace with \n
I have used POSIX regular expression syntax, which can be selected from the
Editor page of the Preferences dialog box.

Ed , I tried your workaround without success...