geany find special substring

Question

I have a lot of php files and I want to find every occurance of

htmlentities(some var);

in geany, and I don't want that

htmlentites(some var, ENT_QUOTES);

got found, so it has to be something like:

htmlentities(...);

because the dots stand for an undefined character, but then I am only able to find it with a specified lenght. What is the correct syntax to find something with a undefined length substring?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 29 '15 at 10:14

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You can use regular expressions inside Search and Replace dialogs. As this little depends on you system (e.g. which grep etc.) and what you are looking in detail, here is the deeplink to manual.

answered Mar 29 '15 at 10:14

frlan

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Thank you, I looked very carefully at the regular expressions table, and made: `htmlentities\([^,]*\);` – Arend-Jan van Hilten Apr 06 '15 at 18:15

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