My requirement is to search on Notepad , sample text shown below:
UM001 Uddharana Madhava Date: 3/6/2021, Thursday Topic: Bangla Economics Language: Bengali Date: 4/6/2021, Friday Topic: Bangla Economics Language: Bengali Date: 3/6/2021, Thursday Topic: Bangla Economics Language: English CJ009 Cidananda Janardana Date: 3/6/2021, Thursday Topic: Bangla Economics Language: Telugu
The search result should highlight
UM001 Uddharana Madhava Date: 3/6/2021, Thursday Topic: Bangla Economics Language: Bengali Date: 4/6/2021, Friday Topic: Bangla Economics Language: Bengali
It should not highlight from other teachers schedule
Date: 3/6/2021, Thursday Topic: Bangla EconomicsLanguage: English CJ009 Cidananda Janardana Date: 3/6/2021, Thursday Topic: Bangla Economics Language: Telugu
Language(. ?)Date
The above search pattern is not working so I tried
Language(. ?)(?![A-Z][A-Z]\d{3})Date
Language(. ?)(?![A-Z][A-Z]\d{3})(. ?)Date
These two are also not working. Please suggest how can I achieve the desired result. Here is what I am looking for, if there is a name in between Language and date, that should not be captured. Here is a link of image which shows my requirement
CodePudding user response：
To highlight only parts with multiple Date parts:
^[A-Z][A-Z]\d{3}\b\h \S.*\s*(?>\RDate:\h.*(?:\R(?!Date:|[A-Z][A-Z]\d{3}\b).*)*){2,}
The pattern matches:
^Start of string[A-Z][A-Z]\d{3}\bMatch the format of the valuesUM001for example\h \S.*\s*Match 1 horizontal whitespace chars, at least a single non whitespace char and the rest of the line. Then match optional whitespace chars, that could also match a newline(?>Atomic group\RDate:\h.*Match a newline,Date:and the rest of the line(?:\R(?!Date:|[A-Z][A-Z]\d{3}\b).*)*Match all lines that do not start with eitherDate:or a pattern like the start value
){2,}Close the group and repeat 2 or more times
See a regex demo.
CodePudding user response：
Your answer isn't clear what you want to highlight , but I guess you wanted this ...
Find: ^Language: Bengali\n Date:
See the attachment
Or
Find: ^Language: Bengali\n*Date.*
Your desired result will look like this ,
