Nice problem.
Rich’s patterns works for me - if I put some parentheses around the whole
pattern:
(^.*?\n){XXX}
I guess, without the pattern the quantifier only checks for the „\n“ and
you are in fact searching for a line of text followed by XXX line breaks
(aka empty lines).
-Roland
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 4:45 PM Rich Siegel <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/10/18 at 7:26 AM, [email protected] (Philippe
> Carly) wrote:
>
> >More specifically, I have a directory which contains a large
> >number of subdirectories, each containing (among other things)
> >a fileinfo.php file.
> >I now that this fileinfo.php should have N lines. And I am
> >trying to locate files that have more or less than N lines to
> >search for potential problems.
>
> If I am understand your description correctly, something like
> this should work:
>
> - search for:
>
> ^.*?\n{XXX} -- replace the "XXX" with the desired number of lines
>
> - turn on "Exclude Matches"
>
> - run your multi-file search.
>
> This will return all files that don't have XXX lines in them.
>
> You can add a file filter to only search "fileinfo.php" files to
> further narrow things down.
>
> R.
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