This is the line:

I love you and George loves IOANA but also Mihai is my enemy.

I want to match 2 words before IOANA, and also 2 words after IOANA

The Output should be:

I love you and IOANA Mihai is my enemy.

I believe my regex must be upgrade a little bit, as to work:

SEARCH: (^.*)(?s)(\w+{2}IOANA\w+{2})(.*)

REPLACE BY: \1\2

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1 Answer

• Ctrl+H
• Find what: (?:\S+ ){2}(IOANA)(?: \S+){2}
• Replace with: $1
• CHECK Match case
• CHECK Wrap around
• CHECK Regular expression
• UNCHECK . matches newline
• Replace all

Explanation:

(?: # non capture group \S+ # 1 or more non space character # a space
){2} # end group, must appear twice
(IOANA) # group 1
(?: # non capture group # a space \S+ # 1 or more non space character
){2} # end group, must appear twice

I guess, here, that you means words are composed with non spaces characters.

• If, for you, word contains only letters and digits, use [a-zA-Z0-9]+ instead of \S+.
• If, for you, word contains only letters and soeme punctuation like ', use [a-zA-Z']+ instead of \S+.

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