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Thank you so much for the help.

Also I am thinking that it solves a particular dilemma around line breaks which you seemed to be getting at.... that is, of having to specify line breaks when the number of them is unknown. For some reason, this can't be expressed directly in a regexp, or at least not in this implementation of it. D...

Very interesting. So if I understand correctly, you're saying that the "except" expression is a workaround for the pain of specifying all the different possible characters that might be included in the range.... & that it's much easier to turn it on its head and say, "Any character that isn't expres...

Ah, you're right it IS in the UE help. It didn't turn up on my search for "~". This time, I went down the list of UltraEdit syntax regular expressions & eyeballed them one by one. Yes it was there. I see many uses for this expression if only I could get it to work! (In my case it doesn't have a prob...

OK.. success! Thank you both for the replies. How funny that while looking for an arcane syntax, I didn't think of the most basic concept... use Find. Find string B, then find string A. If found, it means *error*! So, I wrote a macro that does this. It works off of a list of the html filenames, open...

Perhaps someone can help. In a group of 15,000 html files, a few contain a certain error I need to fix. Every file contains string A and string B. String B should appear only after string A, never before it. What I want to do is this: Find in Files, all instances where string B appears before string...