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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\(\n\p\+\{-\}\)

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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.
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  • Thank you Rich this is exactly what I was looking for. Additionally could you point me to some resource which could help me improve my understanding of regex.
    – Stephen Jacob
    Apr 7, 2017 at 11:19
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    I'm not sure if I'd recommend it as the best tutorial, but most of what I know about regular expressions I learned from reading through :help regexp. :help usr_27 is a much more readable introduction, though.
    – Rich
    Apr 7, 2017 at 12:02

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