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I am trying to highlight a set of lines, between the line containing ULS at the top of the line, to the line containing star in the bottom. I have tried many combination but I have failed. If someone could kindly guide me the correct regex for that selection. (Note: I am working in Windows).
I have unsuccessfully tried to use the following regex:
/ULS\p\+\n\(\n\p\+\{-\}\)
I'm a little unclear about precisely what you're trying to achieve, but this search finds the lines between ULS and the first line that follows that begins with a "*" character, and includes all the lines between those lines within a capture group:
/ULS\p\+\n\(\_p\{-}\)\n\*
Broken down:
/ULS: "ULS"\p\+\n: Any number of printable characters, followed by a newline \(: Start of capture group\_p\{-}: Any number of printable characters, including newlines. \_p is a variant of \p that also matches newlines (the underscore can be used in other character classes in the same way: see :help 27.8 for details). \{-} is a non-greedy version of *\): End of capture group\n\*: A newline followed by a star.
:help regexp. :help usr_27 is a much more readable introduction, though.
– Rich
Apr 7 '17 at 12:02
