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I try to verify a CSV file where we had problems with line breaks.
I want to find all lines not starting with a ".
I am trying with /!^"/gim but the ! negation is not working.
How can I negate /^"/gim properly?
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Notepad++ Search Across Multiple Lines Find Next Result: Search text: This is my file and I want to search some text across multiple lines. To search across lines, you will need to use a regex across multiple lines based on the below file types, Windows: \r\n.
In most programs, the Find and Replace option can be accessed by pressing the Ctrl + H or Ctrl + F keyboard shortcut on the PC. On Apple computers running macOS, the shortcut key may be either Command + H or Command + F . Replacing text within Notepad.
In regex, the ! does not mean negation; instead, you want to negate a character set with [^"]. The brackets, [], denote a character set and if it starts with a ^ that means "not this character set".
So, if you wanted to match things that are not double-quotes, you would use [^"]; if you don't want to match any quotes, you could use [^"'], etc.
With Notepad++, you should be able to search with the following to find lines that don't start with the " character:
^[^"] If you want to highlight the full line, use:
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