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Please tell Scintilla how to highlight a line with a comment, I found information about highlighting numbers: How can I highlight a line with the "#" symbol?
I couldn't find any information on the Scintilla website...

rndrei wrote: Please tell Scintilla how to highlight a line with a comment, I found information about highlighting numbers:

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reg() = "\d+"

How can I highlight a line with the "#" symbol?

Assuming your request is for RegEx, a comment example would have been helpful to refine it!
So, exclusively for lines beginning with # :

Yes, thanks, that's what I need

where can I get a complete list of regex codes?

Google?
https://scite-ru.bitbucket.io/pack/doc/SciTERegEx.html - it's not objective, it's SciTE, not Scintilla

https://azjio.narod.ru/regexp/RegExpEn.htm - This is a PCRE engine, and Scintilla has a very stripped-down engine.

Instead of \b, use "\<" and "\>" (word boundaries). Instead of the range [a-zA-Z]+ you need to use [qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnmQWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM]+
No forward and backward preview (?<=...) and (?=...)
No OR sign "|" to highlight a set of keywords, you need to specify each one separately

thank you, otherwise I couldn’t find the information

I can't figure it out! If two words are needed, then what kind of construction will it be?

rndrei wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2024 7:51 am I can't figure it out! If two words are needed, then what kind of construction will it be?

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reg()="(text_first|text_second)"

Do two separate searches.

I need one search

The solution you presented should work, if you're searching for specific words. What sort of problem were you having? Or what string that you expected to match, didn't?

Can I recommend you bookmark https://regex101.com/. It's a reference site for various flavours of regex, testing sandpit and will even explain and try to debug your regexes too, all in a webpage, for free and you don't even need to sign up... Oh and there's a searchable list of other people's solutions to various problems too.

@Spikey: Scintilla's base implementation of regular expressions is simple and limited. For example it doesn't implement the 'I' for matching OR expressions. AZJIO mentioned a few other limitations in his earlier post as well.

https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#Searching

I can't figure out how to make an exception?
For example, all words except those ending with the symbol ";"
The example does not work:

Got it! If anyone is interested, it will be like this: