You can use the repetition modifier on a parentheses group to find a pattern
that repeats so many times.
This will find five repetitions of a line that starts with an alphanumeric
character.
(\w.*?\n){5}
You can use non-grouping parentheses (:? ... ) if you need to do
search/replaces with this.
[fletcher]
> On Jul 29, 2024, at 3:11 AM, Otto Munters <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi BB friends
>
> How can I find text blocks consisting of 5 lines?
> Example:
> line 1
> line 2
> line 3
> line 4
>
> line 5
> line 6
> line 7
> line 8
> line 9
>
> I then want to find the second block of text.
>
> thanks for your help!
> Otto
>
>
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