How to use regular expression for searches?

[llinfeng]

Hi,

I found the phrase "regular expression" from repo, but was an clear how to make it work. I also saw mentioning that Sumatra PDF does work with regex from this post: http://superuser.com/questions/416244/is-there-any-pdf-reader-that-supports-word-searching-with-regular-expression

Could anyone give a working example?

Thank you!

All the best,

-Linfeng

[kjk]

We don't support regex searches (and the post above puts Sumatra in the "no regex support" list).

[Foadsf]

This could actually be a great feature. You already have search so adding regex should be doable. There is also the dnGREP which could be a good place to start. Here also has been similar feature request for Okular.

[Foadsf]

this could turn into a collaboration with dnGREP and Okular.

[GitHubRulesOK]

Hmm only just had time to test dnGREP today however it looks well developed to do exactly that task,

for locating results visually its better than pdfgrep which good as it is for a command line can be a bit limiting here I am searching for @media in a single file.