hello. I have this Regex.
This will delete everything before “WORD”
Search:
[\s\S]*.*(WORD).*[\s\S]
Replace with:
leave empty
I test this with notepad++ and or GrepWin and works great. Works with sublime.
But, if I put in the same expression with some other word, like “bebe”, it doesn’t work on Sublime, but works with the other 2 editors.
[\s\S]*.*(bebe).*[\s\S] (not working)
I’m not sure what you expect here.
It sounds like you want to delete everything before the WORD, for example in:
This is a sentence with a WORD in it
you want to delete:
This is a sentence with a
correct?
If that’s the case then your regex will not match that part of the sentence.
[\s\S].(WORD).*[\s\S] will match a WORD in it and replacing that match with nothing will leave you with:
This is a sentence with
Could you provide an example of what you expect to happen? Because as it stands your regex doesn’t match up with your explanation as far as I can see.
sorry, seems I forget to Blockquote, and was a wrong formula.
I wrote again:
[\s\S]*.*(WORD).*[\s\S]
Replace with:
leave empty
Example:
Father 123
This is a sentence with a WORD in it
mother
The regex will delete all lines included that one with the WORD in it. And will leave “mother”
The problem in Sublime is that if I replace WORD with another one, like “bebe”, the same regex will not work. But works very well with notepad++ or GrepWin.
This seems to work perfectly fine for me.
If I use the text:
Father 123
This is a sentence with a WORD in it
1234 bebe 123
testing 123
mother
with the regex [\s\S]*.*(bebe).*[\s\S], it will select everything from the beginning of the file up to the end of the line that contains the word bebe in the same way it did with WORD.
This is what I just tried, and it worked fine:
^[^\n]*\<WORD\>[^\n]*$
^[^\n]*\<bebe\>[^\n]*$it is not the same.
Your regex delete only the row that has some words.
The regex I discuss [\s\S]*.*(WORD).*[\s\S] deletes everything included the lines before WORD.