Regex search in text editors UltraEdit or Notepad++

Question

I would like to find the above code and replace with my own code.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title></title>
<link href="default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

</head>

The regular expression I've tried is:

\<!.*[\r\n].*[\r\n].*[\r\n].*[\r\n].*[\r\n].*[\r\n].*[\r\n].*[\r\n].*[\r\n].*[\r\n]\<\/head\>

It works when I verified it by the online regex tool.

However, it doesn't work with either UltraEdit (Perl regex search mode)/Notepad++ (regex search mode).

Are there are some simplified/ more efficient and working solutions?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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Use this regular expression (with Regular Expression Engine in the UltraEdit Find dialog set to Perl):

<![\s\S]*</head>

Tested with UltraEdit 16.1. But I think it will work for at least UltraEdit 14 and later.

Ref: Is it possible to match a pattern using a regular expression across a newline in UltraEdit?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

Community

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answered Aug 12 '10 at 12:00

Peter Mortensen

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 19 '11 at 04:39

0

grepWin can help you.

grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use regular expressions to do its job. This allows to do much more powerful searches and replaces.

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grepWin is free and open source.

edited Oct 19 '11 at 04:39

Gareth

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answered Aug 12 '10 at 06:36

Mehper C. Palavuzlar

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Regex search in text editors UltraEdit or Notepad++

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