Regex search for newlines

[oonet]

Regex doesn't see \n (but does see newline characters pasted into search string).

[tsujan]

Yes, you're right and I'm aware of it. Unfortunately, I found no simple way to connect how Qt processes blocks (=lines) with how regex handles newline. Actually, I devised a method to support newlines in regex search and it worked but it was so complicated that I didn't add it to the code.

I leave this page open. Who knows? Maybe an elegant solution exits or the above-mentioned method can be simplified and added to the code.

[oonet]

Not ideal, but maybe substitute newline character (as pasted) for all occurrences of \n in search string?

[tsujan]

Regex can include things like (?=\n), (?<!\n) or (\s\n){1,3}. I can just hope that the problem only seems so complex and a simple solution exists somehow...

[oonet]

I feel for you!

Just testing, it appears FeatherPad finds newline characters only with regex unselected.

Is there a multiline flag that must be set?

[tsujan]

it appears FeatherPad finds newline characters only with regex unselected.

I added my reply to a wrong page ;) See #418 (comment)