Although you can invert character matching using [^ ... , I don't think there's an equivalent for words.
You could have used;
"(is)\b(cat|dinosaur|dog)\b.*\b_(cat|dinosaur|dog)\b"

... if there was a way to say 'not beginning with the first match' where the underscore appears in the above - then it would be possible to do a quick 1 liner regex - we can use '\1' to back reference the first match.

:-(

J. Landman Gay wrote:
Sorry if this comes through twice, I'm having trouble sending to the list.

I need a matchtext/regex that will tell me if all supplied words exist in a block of text, regardless of their order, and ignoring carriage returns.

For example, see if all these words:  dog dinosaur cat

exist in this text:

"The purple dinosaur inadvertently stepped on the cat.<cr>
The white dog howled."

Should return true. Is there such a thing?


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