I have a big sporadic sql scripts and need to find and replace a few values in it. I am trying to pass my values in REGEX to Notepad++ but I can't seem to make it work. To be more specific, I have around 50 script, each with 5000 lines, and I need to look for a list of values, e.g. "[dbo].[livesales]" "[dbo].[CreditCards]" in all my scripts separately. I undertand that I need either run this separately against each script or merger them all into one file, but I need the proper REGEX command for it. I need to include square bracket and dots as well. I end up building this but it doesn't work for me:
^(?=.*\b[dbo].[LiveSales]\b)(?=.*\b[dbo].[CreditCards]\b).+$
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I wouldn't bother using word boundaries, as square brackets in SQL Server are pretty ubiquitous for database object names (e.g. database and column names). I suggest the following pattern:
\[dbo\]\.\[(?:LiveSales|CreditCards)\]
The major changes I have made include not using word boundaries, escaping the [ and ] brackets (since square bracket is a regex metacharacter with a special meaning), and also not try to match the entire input. Presumably you want to find all such occurrences, and so don't bother trying to scope your pattern with ^ and $.