regex - Multiline Regular Expression search and replace!

Question

I've hit a wall. Does anybody know a good text editor that has search and replace like Notepad++ but can also do multi-line regex search and replace? Basically, I am trying to find something that can match a regex like:

search oldlog(.* s+([ .]*));
replace newlog(1)

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Notepad++ can now handle multi line regular expressions (just update to the latest version - feature was introduced around March '12).

I needed to remove all onmouseout and onmouseover statements from an HTML document and I needed to create a non-greedy multi line match.

onmouseover=.?s*".*?"

Make sure you check the:

[ ] . matches newline

checkbox if you want to use the multi line match capability.