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Find lines that do not contain 1 of 2 characters in Notepad++

how can i find lines that NOT contain either chars ; or :?

i only know to find line without one of them by regex ^[^\:]*\r\n

thanks!

Solution

  • With the following, you can select blocks of consecutive lines that do not contain those characters:

    ^[^:;]*$

    For the following input file, this regular expression will select lines 1-2, 4-6, 8-9 (skipping line 3 and 7, which contain the excluded characters).

    1
2
3A : 3B
4
5
6
7A ; 7B
8
9