
Now, we can use Extended search mode to make up for this shortcoming.

One of the major disadvantages of using regular expressions in Notepad++ was that it did not handle the newline character well-especially in Replace. What's so good about Extended search mode? And so I decided to post what I think is the most detailed step-by-step guide to Search and Replace in Notepad++, and certainly the most detailed guide to cleaning up DMDX. After six hours of trial and error, I managed to bend Notepad++ to my will. I found Anjesh Tuladhar's excellent slides on regular expressions in Notepad++ useful. Unfortunately, the Notepad++ documentation is lacking in its description of these new capabilities. There is now a new Extended search mode that allows you to search for tabs(\t), newline(\r\n), and a character by its value (\o, \x, \b, \d, \t, \n, \r and \\). Since the release of version 4.9, the Notepad++ Find and Replace commands have been updated. I have a feeling that that is about to change. My introductory post on Notepad++ is the most popular post on my speechblog. Apparently, a lot of other people are interested in Notepad++ too. You may already know that I am a big fan of Notepad++.

If you are specifically looking for multiline regular expressions, look at this post. However, the explanations following each Find/Replace term will benefit anyone looking to understand how to use Notepad++ extended search mode and regular expressions. zil files, allowing for easy importing into Excel.

The information in this post details how to clean up DMDX.
