I using regex search to replace the following string:
\new{}\new{\textbf{test1}}\new{test2}
with
\textbf{test1}test2
I used regex replace with \new{(.*)} to find and \1 to replace.
however the search always match the whole line of my original string and the replace reuslt is:
}\new{\textbf{test1}}\new{test2
far from what I need.
In regex expression in Java, you can use a ? after a quantifier makes it a reluctant quantifier. It then tries to find the smallest match. So in java, my search regex expression would be
\\new\{(.*?)\}
I need the corresponding regex search string in TeXStudio to do the smallest match. Anyway to still work through for this case even if TexStudio does not support non-greed match?
Do you know how deep the nesting goes at tis deepest? Can a new be nested in a new?
If the answers are 'yes' and 'no' there is a solution: in Robin's solution \\new\{([^}]*)\} replace the [^}]* with, for example, [^{}]*({[^{}]*})?[^{}]* which is "any number of characters that are not {}" followed by maybe an opening bracket, a number of non-brackets, and a closing one, followed by again zero or more not-brackets. This will match nesting up to two. For every extra level of nesting, you need to replace the middle [^{}]* with another [^{}]*({[^{}]*})?[^{}]* leading to fun like \\new\{[^{}]*({[^{}]*({[^{}]*({[^{}]*})?[^{}]*})?[^{}]*})?[^{}]*\} (4 levels).