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I know this is an oldish thread, but I thought I'd add for clarification that \< and \> are not valid Perlre expressions. They are supported in the vi editor, but as a contributor to the Perlre forum said: "vi ain't Perl".

Hi Tim, my bad copy-and-paste; the lookbehind does come first in the original macro (the snippet is part of a large macro to clean up mbox format emails). I'm sorry to hear the confirmation that lookaround is still broken. I recently finished a long dialogue with IDM support (just prior to the relea...

Are you sure that this has been fixed? In UEdit 14.00b, with the following text snippet (newline after the "---"): --- avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. the Perl regexp: (avast! Antivirus)(?<!---\r\n) succeeds, but: (avast! Antivirus)(?<=---\r\n) fails. Does that not mean that lookbehind is s...

Thanks a lot Mofi - that did it! Alan

Two problems here, really. I am starting Uedit 12.10+3 from the command line with two files to open and a simple macro to run. Its purpose is to read the (very short) files looking for the string 'ERROR During" at the start of any line, and to run a Tool if found. The command line is: start uedit32....

OK Mofi. The good news is that I am now able to replace 4 loops in my original macro with 4 RegEX Find/Replace which works many times faster. I have another query with the macro which I'll post in the appropriate forum if I can't find an answer in previous posts. Thanks again for your time, Alan

Thanks again Mofi - I guessed it had to be a bug & I'm mailing Ian and the Uedit team about it now. Your workaround works fine! But can you explain (why you think) it works, please? Regards Alan

Thanks, Mofi - but this still does not work (copied and pasted from your reply)! It finds: $V:' ' $T:CHAR(1) $P:U and I need to find: $V:' ' $P:U $A:A

I have a text file with up to 100000 lines like the following: $P:U $A:A $C:Code_Opportunity $U:N $V:' ' $P:U $A:A $C:Code_Ratings_Code $U:N $V:' ' $T:CHAR(1) Each "tag" starts with "$" and ends with ":". They should be in groups of 6 lines, one each of: $P: $A: $C: $U: $V: $T: in a group. However, ...