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geany find special substring

I have a lot of php files and I want to find every occurance of

htmlentities(some var);

in geany, and I don't want that 

htmlentites(some var, ENT_QUOTES);

got found, so it has to be something like:

htmlentities(...);

because the dots stand for an undefined character, but then I am only able to find it with a specified lenght. What is the correct syntax to find something with a undefined length substring?

Solution

  • You can use regular expressions inside Search and Replace dialogs. As this little depends on you system (e.g. which grep etc.) and what you are looking in detail, here is the deeplink to manual.