regular expressions with flags in either Textpad or Gedit

Asked Jun 05 '15 at 13:20

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I would love to replace some paragraphs based upon a regular expression (python style) that needs flags gms to work properly.

To keep things simple, I would like to exclusively work with text editors (and dive in into the coding later on.

Is there a way to enable flags for regular expressions in either GEdit or TextPad for Windows?

Cheers, Andrew

asked Jun 05 '15 at 13:20

Andrew Tobey

what you mean with "flags"? Is it CTRL+F + regex? – felipsmartins Jun 05 '15 at 13:22
flags are used to enable various features and syntax variations. see: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html and then "Compiling Regular Expressions" – Andrew Tobey Jun 05 '15 at 13:26
Ah, ok, you mean RE.I, RE.M etc. However, by default gedit does not support regex search. – felipsmartins Jun 05 '15 at 13:29
I see, thx. What about TextPad. It does support RegularExpressions in general. But do you know whether flags are possible there? – Andrew Tobey Jun 05 '15 at 13:32
hmm... I'm do not know about TextPad but I hope it help you: [regexplanet](http://www.regexplanet.com/advanced/python/index.html) or [pythex](http://pythex.org/) – felipsmartins Jun 05 '15 at 13:48

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