Multiline regex search with ag

Asked Mar 24 '19 at 12:55

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I'd like to "AND" search text in spesific multiline range in a file by regex with ag(the_silver_searcher). But the regex pattern not work.

Following regex pattern works well.

ag --multiline -G "^.*\.(md|txt)$" -C 1 -S "foo(\n|.)*baz" ./dev_note.md

(output)

40-
41:foo
42:bar
43:baz
44-

But following regex pattern will output nothing.(no matched)

ag --multiline -G "^.*\.(md|txt)$" -C 1 -S "(?=(.|\n)*(foo))(?=(.|\n)*(baz))" ./dev_note.md

Also I tried: ag --multiline -G "^.*\.(md|txt)$" -C 1 -S "(?=(.|\n)*(foo))(.|\n)*(?=(.|\n)*(baz))" ./dev_note.md

asked Mar 24 '19 at 12:55

k23j4

Is there an example of the source file? – extempl Mar 24 '19 at 15:05
A full list of the `dev_note.md` file is here: https://gist.github.com/274273067e843aaaafb0659d6c27b4b5#file-dev_note-md-txt – k23j4 Mar 25 '19 at 00:48
So what results are you expecting with bottom two patterns? Just to be clear. – extempl Mar 25 '19 at 05:01

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