I have to search all files that start with a certain text. Some of the files have a BOM, others don't.
Is there a way to do that with a regular expression?

Regards
Christian

Hi Christian,

I hope that BOM is excluded from regex matching. This works for me (in Npp at least) - the beginning of the 1st line:
(?<!(?s:.))^

BR, Fleggy

My search text is object. 

So the expression to use is (?<!(?object:.))^    ?

And what kind is it? Perl, Unix, UltraEdit?

I never really became familiar with regular expressions, so I have to ask.

Christian

Hi,

use Perl regex:
(?<!(?s:.))^object
or perhaps (you have to try):
\A^object

Please, check them carefully as I can't verify them in UE at this moment. The negative lookbehind (?<!...) sometimes does not work as supposed because of wrong implementation.

BR, Fleggy

Thanks, this works.

Christian