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Ok, I understand why. This is because in my case, pattern (string1) and pattern (string2) are the exact content of a full line, not a part of line as in your case. TB Edit: This is a potential bug in UE because I tested your case in Visual Regexp 3.0 and it works (http://laurent.riesterer.free.fr/re...

Hum, this seems to work for me. I have a multine text : string1 any number of lines string2 With UE set on unix regexp, doing a 'replace in files' with : Find : (string1)(.*\p*)(string2) Replace with : \1 \3 Regexp : on will output : string1 string2 Thierry B.