Thread: Regex examples
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Old 10-13-2020, 01:53 AM   #682
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Originally Posted by hobnail View Post
I don't understand why this isn't working; my search string is:

<a id="Page_([xvi]+)|([\d]+)" class="x-ebookmaker-pageno" title="\[([xvi]+)|([\d]+)\]"></a>

When the file contains

<a id="Page_iv" class="x-ebookmaker-pageno" title="[iv]"></a>

and I click on the Find button, it highlights only

<a id="Page_i

What's wrong with my regexp?
The "|" is basically an "or". Your regex is basically search for matches to one of:

Code:
<a id="Page_([xvi]+)
Code:
([\d]+)" class="x-ebookmaker-pageno" title="\[([xvi]+)
Code:
([\d]+)\]"></a>
I think you want:

Code:
<a id="Page_([xvi]+|[\d]+)" class="x-ebookmaker-pageno" title="\[([xvi]+|[\d]+)\]"><\/a>
The two groups are the page number and title in either of the formats.
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