在 Notepad++ 中查找不包含 2 个字符中的 1 个的行

Question

how can i find lines that NOT contain either chars ; or : ?

i only know to find line without one of them by regex ^[^\\:]*\\r\\n

thanks!

Answer 1

With the following, you can select blocks of consecutive lines that do not contain those characters:

^[^:;]*$

For the following input file, this regular expression will select lines 1-2, 4-6, 8-9 (skipping line 3 and 7, which contain the excluded characters).

1
2
3A : 3B
4
5
6
7A ; 7B
8
9

Answer 2

You'll want to use a ?! for negative lookahead.

I like to use this site to try out regex I write. https://regex101.com/

https://www.regular-expressions.info/refadv.html

Answer 3

I am the developer of EmEditor. If you use EmEditor, you can enter [;:] to the Filter toolbar, and turn on both Use Regular Expression and Negative buttons. Filter toolbar in EmEditor