I am trying to achieve this and I don’t believe it can’t be done with regex, albeit I would have probably done it with scripting already …

I have a bunch of text files that have multi-line text that fits in between lines that start with a dash (as the first non-blank character on that line). So each such multi-line text might have, on the last line before the dash-starting line below, a line that starts with “>” and contains, somewhere on that line, a hashtag.

Here is one such example:

    - ffff
      - aaa
          * bbb
          * ccc

        - tttt
          * aaa 
          * bbb
          > #tag
    - tttt 
      * aaaa 
      * bbbb
      > #log
-

I have managed to get the text in between dashes but I can’t seem to be able, for the life of me, to speciufy another rule, that in between those dashes there should be a line starting with “>” and containing the tag “#log” -for example:

(^s*)(-[sSn]+?(?=^s*-))

Is there a way, with REGEX, to match each multiline text in between dash-starting lines that contains, on it’s last line, “>.#log.$”?

I tried many many variations like tis one:

(^s*)(-[sSn]+?(?=>.*#log.*$ns*-))

This basically gets everything (greedy?), from the first dash in the file up to the line starting eith “>” that is followed by a newline starting with dash. So it does what it says it dows I just don’t know how to tell it that I don’t want any lines starting with dash in the match.

I somehow want to tell it to only consider the last dash-starting line (non-greedy?)…

Thank you for saving my sanity 🙂