Re: Searching with regular expressions

[Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Buck wrote:
> WDSC 7.0.0.8, Windows XP SP2
>
> Given:
>
>      dProcedureName...
>      d                 pi
>
>       * Update name in PERSON file
>      pProcedureName    b
>      dProcedureName    pi            10i 0
>      d parm                                like(parm_proto)
>
> I'd like to search the entire source for ProcedureName.  In a text file,
> using the Eclipse plugin Regex Util, the following regex will find both
>  PI lines:
>
> .{5}d\s*(ProcedureName)|\1\.\.\.\r\n.{5}d\s*pi
>
> This does not work in WDSC for two reasons that I can 
> 1) I cannot figure out how to formulate a search that spans lines
> 2) Capturing does not seem to work

What precisely do you mean by "in WDSC"?  If you are using the RSE LPEX 
  editor's find/replace function, then I think you are out of luck.  I 
think that function works _only_ line-at-a-time.  I'm sure that 
capturing groups are not supported.