In recent development work, I often needed to find specific multiple-lines texts (*) by searching the code base. Note: Those multiple-lines texts are often back-end methods or front-end tags.
In the following case, to find methods which name is like doSomethingXxx, I use the regular expression public void doSomething.+\(\) \{[\s\S]+?\}, and it works well (getting the 3 matches).
But furthermore, when I needed to find specific multiple-lines texts including/excluding some string, in the following case, find methods which name is like doSomethingXxx but includes/excludes the string 456, I have no solution by far.
When finding methods including the string 456, the regular expression should return 1 match - the method doSomething2; When finding methods excluding the string 456, the regular expression should return 2 matches - the methods doSomething1 and doSomething3.
Here are some failed regular expressions I have tested: public void doSomething.+\(\) \{[\s\S]+?456[\s\S]+?\} (returns 1 match containing both the methods doSomething1 and doSomething2), public void doSomething.+\(\) \{[\s\S]+?(456){0}[\s\S]+?\} (returns 3 matches which are the methods doSomething1, doSomething2 and doSomething3 respectively).
Could you help find one solution? Thanks very much.
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public void doSomething1() {
// XXXXX
// 123
// XXXXX
}
...
public void doSomething2() {
// XXXXX
// 456
// XXXXX
}
...
public void doSomething3() {
// XXXXX
// 789
// XXXXX
}
...
