Find the last occurrence of a string in a file.

Meroveus · May 20, 2020#12020-05-20T23:10+00:00

switch(?!.*switch)

Finds the last occurrence of a word on a line, but the file might be several thousand lines long, and I want to find the last occurrence in the entire file.
In my test file, I used:

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switch(?![^¢]*switch)

But in real life, I cannot guarantee that the cents symbol will never occur.

What is the proper way to do this?

Mofi · May 21, 2020#22020-05-21T08:50+00:00

Press Ctrl+End to move caret to end of a file and use a simple, non-regular expression Find opened with Alt+F3 (not Quick Find as executed by default with Ctrl+F) for switch with clicking on button Previous or pressing Alt+P.

fleggy · May 21, 2020#32020-05-21T13:13+00:00

If you really need to use regexp for whatever reason:

(?s).*\Kswitch

Meroveus · May 21, 2020#42020-05-21T16:08+00:00

The file is a log file and I'm polling it.
So I was hoping to just hit F3 and find the last occurrence which is often buried in a hundred or more lines of other stuff

When I use the suggestion provided, it finds the last, but oddly in one rather long file, it also returned an occurrence in the middle.
I suspect that there is a buffer length involved.
The file is 120K, and I was using it as a test after it had been closed.

Later today, I'll try it on a live log file.