Total Commander

Hi!

The exercise:
I was trying to find files containing "[" at the line beginning of some ASCII files,
so I searched for files containing the RegEx "\n\[" - without success. The same RegEx works OK in my text editor.

The workarounds/alternatives:
- search for RegEx "^\[" (works)
- search for hexadecimal representation of the values ("0d 0a 5b"). (works)

Suggestion:

• The RegEx-search in the find files function doesn't seem to find CR/LF with "\n" -
  maybe this can be added, if it's not hard to implement?
• This is not mentioned in the help (a hint would be nice there, if this will not be added).

Just search for "\n\[" WITHOUT checking the regEx option.

petermad wrote:Just search for "\n\[" WITHOUT checking the regEx option.

Almost: "\n[" (without the second backslash) does the job without RegEx.
Thanks for the hint.

2StatusQuo

without the second backslash

That was what I meant to write - sorry.


BTW - it also works for tabs: \t[

I searched for files containing the RegEx "\n\[" - without success.

Sorry, this cannot work, because RegEx in Total Commander is limited to single lines - it cannot find multiple lines. Therefore a regex search string will never contain any line breaks. However, the beginning and end of a line can be found via ^ and $.

However, the beginning and end of a line can be found via ^ and $.

This works fine, thanks.
Maybe this sentence can be added to the help, perhaps on a central position like the RegEx parameter description page
("Note: You can not use \n together in TC's RegEx search, but...").

StatusQuo wrote:Maybe this sentence can be added to the help

It's already mentioned:

The other modificators are not relevant for Total Commander, because the program only supports searching within one line.

Flint wrote:It's already mentioned:

The other modificators are not relevant for Total Commander, because the program only supports searching within one line.

OK, I missed that line, thanks. But the hint with the alternative is not there yet.
But this is maybe not a problem anymore, too, since now one can find the answer here with corresponding search keywords...


(for future searches: newline, line break)

StatusQuo wrote:But the hint with the alternative is not there yet.

I'm not sure it is necessary. The ^ and $ metacharacters are well-described; it's an easy task to make appropriate conclusion. IMHO, of course.