find - Notepad++ newline in regex

Question

Suppose you have this file:

x
a
b
c
x
x
a
b
c
x
x

and you want to find the sequence abc (and select the whole 3 lines) with Notepad++ . How to express the newline in regex, please?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4398613/notepad-newline-in-regex

Answer 1

Notepad++ can do that comfortably, you don't even need regexes

In the find dialogue box look in the bottom left and switch your search mode to Extended which allows etc.

As odds on you're working on a file in windows format you'll be looking for (carriage return, newline)

a
b
c

Will find the pattern over three lines