Notepad++ non-greedy regular expressions

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UGEEN picture UGEEN · Oct 19, 2010 · Viewed 32.5k times · Source

Does Notepad++ support non-greedy regular expressions?

For example for text:

abcxadc

I want to get parts using pattern:

a.+c

And now I get whole string instead of 2 parts. I tried to use the '?' operator but without success.

Answer

UGEEN picture UGEEN · Apr 22, 2011

Update: from version 5.9 (build time Mar, 31. 2011), Notepad++ supports non greedy regular expressions (new scintilla 2.5).

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