Notepad ++中的单行正则表达式搜索

Question

When I use "Find Next" to find the next match for a regex in Notepad++ (v. 7.8.6), the match can span several lines. Is there a way to limit the matches to a single line, ie to search each line separately?

Answer 1

There is no option in Notepad++ to disable matching across multiple lines.

The match texts in the Find results window are truncated , that does not mean that Notepad++ can be "set" to search within single lines.

The " . matches newline " option only affects the . behavior: if the option is OFF, . does not match line break chars by default.

However, \s ( any whitespace chars ), \W ( any non-word chars ), [^57] ( any char but 5 and 7 ) patterns still may "overflow" from line to line because line break chars are among those characters those patterns match.