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a Windows tool which allows for searching for files using regex expressions, similar in functionality to linux grep, but with an advanced GUI

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Regex find catch blocks without log

I am using regex with PowerGrep to search through a bunch of files. I am working with java files and my goal is to find all catch blocks that do not contain the word log within the block so that I can add logging. There are alot of files, so going…
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How to limit optional whitespace matches in regex

YARP. (Yup, another regex problem). Not sure the clearest way to describe this other than concrete examples. Sample text: 4444 4444 4444 4444 4444444444444444 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 4444-4444-4444-4444 4444 (multiple spaces) 4444 (multiple…
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PowerGrep Search and Replace: "cannot make replacements using read-only converters"

I get an error on PowerGrep software when I try to Replace the content of some files: "cannot make replacements using read-only converters" What can I do? Can anyone help me a little bit?
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Regex search and replace with conditionals: works in Notepad++, doesn't in Powergrep?

I use this regex in Notepad++, to search and replace multiple words. (good)|(great)|(fine) (?1bad)(?2worse)(?3not) Problem is, it doesnt work in Powergrep, any way to alter it? Problem is, Notepad++ has limited lengh or regular expression, and…
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PowerGREP - regular expression

I have log of Apache and each line of file looks like: script.php?variable1=value1&variable2=value2&variable3=value3&......................... I need to take out this part of string: variable1=value1&variable2=value2 and ignore the rest of line.…
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Regex: Remove line breaks in double quote field?

I have a .csv file with this error that I want to correct with regular expression, some fields contain line breaks, example: "abc de f 123",123,456 Should be in one line, I want to remove line-breaks only but to keep the text "abcdef…
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Regular expression multiple search and replace?

I need a single regex to replace multiple words: 111, 222, 333, in text like this with 444, 555, 666 (case insensitive): randomtext111randomtext randomtext222 randomtext 333randomtext randomtext To replace with words 444, 555, 666 to have this…
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Regex for nth line in a text file

I've been trying to get this regex down and searched alot for answers What I need is to get the nth (4th in this example) line from a text file I got this down atm ^(?<=([^\n]*\n){3})[^\n]*\n But it doesn't seem to work (something about needing…
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extract lines from a list of text files

okay so I have a list of files and 3 lines containing a word I need to extract from each line basically each file can be looked at like this: random random random random LINE 1 TEXT RANDOM TEXT random LINE 2 TEXT RANDOM TEXT random random LINE 3…
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Regular expression to combine two lines into one?

I am using PowerGrep to collect some data from html files. In every file I match two strings using regex, and then I want to combine that two strings into one line. I tried to use: $\r\n and replace with blank but it won't work. When I use the same…
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how to search and replace a block in files with Eclipse or PowerGREP?

There is a read me section at the beginning of my files, many files. The section's format likes this: ############### Read me ############### many lines here ######################################## I want to update them with new contents. I am…
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Getting jar content

I'm trying to open some .jar archieve and get files from it. What i've got now: As i know .jar==.zip, so i used 7zip. It opens my jar and says that headers broken and still succeeded extraction. I used standard Oracle jdk utility jar tvf my.jar and…
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How to exclude an HTML tag in regex search

I'm using powerGrep to find instances of these: BLOCK 1: kat But there are also instances of these among my files: BLOCK 2 kat
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Regex to switch words?

I have long list of two string in every row, numerical string and alphanumerical string (that are of different length in every raw), that I want to change (switch) position: 010110,file_1.txt 0120100,file_11.txt To have…
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save result of search and replace feature PowerGREP

I want to save result of search and replace feature of PowerGREP to excel or csv file that contains separate column for replaced by, full file name and what is replaced. Can anyone help on this ? I know we can export result (as text file) but that's…
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