Column Mode Search

Column Mode Search

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    Aug 09, 2006#1

    I do not know how long ColumnMode has been a feature but I love it.
    I don't know if this is possible but I would like to suggest a behavior for Find when ColumnModeOn.
    I want to be able to select a column and then search for just that column:

    1234
    ABCD
    1235012345 - This line is different from Line 1 (obviously, : ) its a lot longer now)
    ABCD
    ABCD
    123423
    1234BC

    So if I hit F3 after selecting the bolded column, I should find that same column spanning lines 3 and 4. And then what would be really spiffy (but not nessessarily a must for this behavior) is if it found the column again at the end of lines 6 and 7.
    Is this the eventual behavior of Find in column mode?
    Is there was to do this already?

    Thanks everyone. (I LOVE UltraEdit) Its the only program I use today that I was using 7 years ago! I love it!

    -Matt
    PS Sorry if this is a repeat, I only half heartedly searched the forum posts...
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      Aug 10, 2006#2

      Currently (v12.10a) such a column search is not possible. You can write a feature request email to IDM.

      As not perfect but better than nothing workaround you can search in column mode with a regular expression. For your example this would be in UltraEdit style: 23*^p*BC.

      It will find correctly 23 BC in line 1+2 and line 3+4. But the disadvantage of this workaround can be seen in line 5+6 where not the correct block is selected.
      Best regards from an UC/UE/UES for Windows user from Austria
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        Dec 15, 2006#3

        how do you specify # of repetitions? like looking for column 101 ~102 to be 'DE', so

        %?{100}DE

        or something like that.

        Thanks
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          Dec 16, 2006#4

          I still use always the UltraEdit regular expression engine which does not support repetitions. I'm not a Perl regular expression expert, but this would work with the Perl compatible regular expression engine selected in the search configuration dialog of UltraEdit v12+ with option Match Case also enabled:

          ^.{100}DE

          Do not mix the UltraEdit style with the Unix/Perl style. The UltraEdit engine and the legacy Unix regex engine do not support repetitions. With these regex engines simply 100 hundred ? (UE) or . (Unix) must be used in the search string.

          Hint: Insert 10 ? in the find what field in the find dialog, select it, copy it to clipboard with Ctrl+C, paste it 9 times with Ctrl+V after the existing 10 ? and you have 100 ?. That's easier and faster than inserting 100 ? manually.
          Best regards from an UC/UE/UES for Windows user from Austria
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            Dec 18, 2006#5

            Hello Mofi,

            It works great, thx for the help.