notepadregex
I am trying to move away from TextPad, and I just can't get regular expressions like ^ and $ to be replaced. I have definitely ticked the regular expression box.
What am I doing wrong?
I am trying to find the start of a new line. In TextPad, it is find '^' and ensure regular expressions is enabled. With Notepad++ it does not do that. It just says "Not found".
The Hex Editor plugin was disabled for being unstable. This means that the plugin crashed Notepad++ in some situations. I encountered this problem myself when trying to save an edited file.
Earlier versions of Notepad++ don't have those problems with the plugin.
All you need to do is check . matches newline in Notepad++ Search/Replace Search Mode:
This will make the dot . in your regex match newline, so .* will match any number of newlines.
Best Answer
^ and $ are both anchors in Regex, which means if you want to replace the literal chars
^and$you need to escape them, usually with a leading backslash (\^, and\$).To find the first character on a line use
^.The start line anchor (
^) is a zero-width match, so combining it with the . will find any character at the beginning of a line.Maybe you can explain what you're actually trying to do?