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Searching with regular expressions

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Is there any way to search a file using regular expressions? The advanced search feature are great, but it has issues when I'm trying to search for text that includes a quotation mark.

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Hello janeg,

Have you tried putting the ? mark in quotes? e.g. "?"
As for Regex - I did try but it does not seem to work, and am now asking a colleague from the dev team for a confirmation whether regex is supported.

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It would be very nice to have RegEx search. Please consider to add this feature to Editor.

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Hello Ogv,

Thanks for your input. We will consider it!

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Thank you, Stefan!
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:)

p.s. Turns out there has already been a request for this for a while - so I've just raised the priority of the FR ticket.
I still can not say when this will be implemented though!
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+1

I also would love to see Regex search capabilities in PDF editor.
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Hi Stefan!

Cool!!! Thank you!
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