vs.net find help, how to search for all lines that contain 2 strings using regex?

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DotNetNewbie - 05 Mar 2008 19:42 GMT

Hello,

In VS.NET, I assume the 'Find' tool lets you search using regular
expressions right?

How would I search for all lines in my project that contain 2 strings
(anywhere in the line, in any order)?

Example, the 2 strings could be: 1) script 2) text

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Jesse Houwing - 05 Mar 2008 20:46 GMT

Hello DotNetNewbie,

> Hello,
>
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> Example, the 2 strings could be: 1) script 2) text

Visual Studio uses a very nasty variation of Regex. Which is always very
frustrating for me to use. There are even 3rd party implementations of Find&Replace
which use the standard .NET flavour of regex instead.

The regex that works for me is:

{text.*script}|{script.*text}

--
Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl

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rossum - 05 Mar 2008 21:15 GMT

>Hello,
>
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>Example, the 2 strings could be: 1) script 2) text

It might be simpler and more maintainable to separate the two
searches.

Pseudocode:

for each string str in lines[] do
if (str contains "script" and str contains "text") then
doStuff(str)
endif
endfor

rossum

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