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?
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?
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:
^[^"].*