'The qt creator IDE doesn't support multiline regex search
I used the "Search Results" window to search for some contents of "CMakeLists.txt", and I selected the "Use regular expressions", and the regex is
(add_executable|add_library|target_link_libraries)\s*\(.*mylib.*\)
but \s of regex doesn't match \n. I changed \s to ., it didn't match. I added (^m) in front of the regex, but it still didn't match.
Is this a bug of Qt Creator IDE? Can I use another tool or plugin of Qt Creator supporting multi-line searching?
Solution 1:[1]
It's very common for regex engines to be unable to handle multi-line matches irrespective of \n matching or the /m modifier. More unusual for them to handle them successfully, in my experience. You're probably out of luck.
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