Notepad++ regex find XML attribute containing a substring

Question

I am trying to find XML tag which has a attribute which does contain a certain value in their string. For example you have this XML:

<situation xsi:type="..." id="PK_1243f_TESTING_093891">
        .....
</situation>

In this example you see that the id has 'TESTING' in it. But there are also situations without this in their id like this:

<situation xsi:type="..." id="PK_1932z_093716">
        .....
</situation>

Which can be found by this regex:

<situation xsi:type="([^\"]*)\" id="((?!TESTING).)*"(?:(?!</situation>).)+</situation>

What changes need to be made in the regex above to find the situation with 'TESTING' in their id.

Toto · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-20 13:07:25Z

3

Ctrl+F
Find what: <situation xsi:type="([^"]*)" id="[^"]*TESTING[^"]*"(?:(?!</situation>).)+</situation>
CHECK Match case
CHECK Wrap around
CHECK Regular expression
CHECK . matches newline
Find All in Current Document

Explanation:

<situation xsi:type="           # literally
([^"]*)                         # group 1, 0 or more non "
"                               # quote
id="                            # literally
[^"]*                           # 0 or more non "
TESTING                         # literally
[^"]*                           # 0 or more non "
"                               # quote
(?:(?!</situation>).)+          # 1 or more any character, but never </situation>
</situation>                    # end tag

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answered May 20, 2020 at 13:07

Toto

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