❓ Content search, regex search

[wise_mike]

I am trying to find this inside html files:

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<p dir="RTL" align="justify" dir="rtl"><span lang="en-us"><font size="5">&nbsp;

So I put them inside quotes

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"<p dir="RTL" align="justify" dir="rtl"><span lang="en-us"><font size="5">&nbsp;"

But it gets 0 results. I try to escape the inside quotes and other symbols and search using regex, but it get 0 results too.

I remove some words and it finds just when I search for:

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"<p dir="RTL" align=""

[NotNull]

The following works here. Make sure there are no extra characters after &nbsp; (like a <space>) as regex*: treats all text after that as literal.

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regex*:content:<p dir="RTL" align="justify" dir="rtl"><span lang="en-us"><font size="5">&nbsp;

I expected the following to work too, but it doesn't as double quotes get eaten before being used in the serach:

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regex:content:"[regex-escape:<p dir="RTL" align="justify" dir="rtl"><span lang="en-us"><font size="5">&nbsp;]"

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Use regex*: to eat the rest of the search text as literal. (recommended)



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Use &quot: for literal quotes:

regex:content:"<p dir=&quot:RTL&quot: align=&quot:justify&quot: dir=&quot:rtl&quot:><span lang=&quot:en-us&quot:><font size=&quot:5&quot:>&nbsp;"



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regex:content:literal:<p dir="RTL" align="justify" dir="rtl"><span lang="en-us"><font size="5">&nbsp;!literal: