A couple of questions concerning Search-and-Replace

[drepdevel]

First off, let me say that I am not particularly tech savvy, so my description may be terribly lacking in the proper terms. I apologize in advance.

Question 1: Is there any way to add more expression slots in the Search-and-Replace tab? There are only three, and I really need one or two more.

Question 2: Regex Build is not detecting this bit of code when hitting Test:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

I am assuming it's the ? marks that are throwing it off. Is there any way to correct this or make it detectable? It's part of a long block of text that I need to get rid of in order to correct a formatting/margin error, but if it's included when putting said block in to the Regex search bar, then the entire block comes back as having 0 occurrences. In truth, the block comes up 4 times, and all other lines but this one are easily found by Regex.

Thanks for any help!

[user_none]

1) No. The rational is search and replace is not a replacement for an editor like Sigil. It is just there to make quick changes to commonly occurring issues within a text.

If you are using it for replace only then you can chain expression in the search field with the | character.

2) Search and replace uses regular expressions. ? is a control character. You need to escape it. \?.

[itimpi]

A lot of punctuation characters have special meaning in regex, so if you want to match a real punctuation character you have to preceed it with a backslash. e.g. use \? to match a question mark.