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• • August 13, 2010 at 4:03 am #56669
    damiang

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    Here's hoping that a grep guru can help me with a “simple” multiline search. The text has been marked up with simple style opening and closing “tags” that are in angle brackets. I can work it out for a single line, but the multiline has me stumped.

    Search for:

    <XYZ>¶

    Text of some kind¶

    More text of some kind¶

    And possibly more text, infact more lines until I reach this marker:¶

    </XYZ>

    and then I will apply a paragraph style in the replace option.

    Many thanks

    Damian

  • August 13, 2010 at 4:49 am #56670
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    This seems to work in some cases

    (?<=x{003E})r+(.+r)+(?!x{003E})

    (?<=x{003E}) this is – (?<=) represents a search behind but don't include in the results

    x{003E} is the unicode for a “>”

    r this is – a paragraph return

    + this is – keep finding as many times as possible

    (.+r)+ this is – find any text follwed by a return as many times as possible

    (?!x{003E}) this is – Look ahead but don't include in the result

    x{003E} is the unicode for a “>”

    And that seems to do the trick of highlighting everthing between the tags

  • August 13, 2010 at 7:35 am #56672
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    Slightly easier is to use the Single-Line Modifier ?s — this puts GREP into “single line mode”, where ^ and $ will match start/end of story, and the period may also match a hard return (which it does not by default):

    (?s)(?<=<XYZ>).+?(?=</XYZ>)

    Afterthought: this will also apply the paragraph style to the first line containing the marker. If you don't want that and it's always followed by a hard return, use this:

    (?s)(?<=<XYZ>r).+?(?=</XYZ>)

  • August 13, 2010 at 7:36 am #56673
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    I knew there was an easier way :D

  • August 13, 2010 at 7:40 am #56674
    damiang

    Participant

    THANKS! Works perfectly. Another one to add to my grep list.

    Cheers

    Damian

  • August 13, 2010 at 10:10 am #56675
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Jongware – I thought that the <XYZ> was just sample text.

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