Find/Replace: Regular expression and XML-aware mode

[HomeGoods]

Suppose I have this XML document opened in Text mode

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<e>

	<e bar="foo bar" />

	<e bar="bar baz" />

	<e baz="baz qux" />

</e>

and want to find and highlight the value of @bar that starts with 'b'; namely "bar baz" of the 2nd @bar.
I opened the Find/Replace dialog and set these options:

• Find: ^b.*
• XPath: @bar
• Enable [Regular expression]
• Enable [Enable XML search options] and [Attribute values]

But nothing's found. Looks like '^' in the regular expression doesn't work.
What's the correct syntax to accomplish the task?

[adrian]

HI,

This doesn't work because Oxygen always treats "^" as the line start, not a region start.
You can work around this with zero-width negative lookbehind:
Find: (?<!.)b.*

Regards,
Adrian

[HomeGoods]

Now I've got it. Thanks!