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search by regular expressions

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That's the best PDF viewer! Thank you! I have been using it for years.
Only thing I miss is search by regular expressions! Is it possible to add it?

Thank you!
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Re: search by regular expressions

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Hi thankss,

it may be added in one of the next releases. There might be some limitations however, like search page by page, not in the entire document.

The lead Viewer developer told me:
The problem is that standard regexp's requires all text to work correctly. We can merge all text from all pages in the selected range range but standard regexp's can take a lot of time time and use lots of memory if there is a huge amount of text..
In the future we can investigate this problem an try to find good solution but not in this time.
hth
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Re: search by regular expressions

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Paul - Tracker Supp wrote:Hi thankss,

it may be added in one of the next releases. There might be some limitations however, like search page by page, not in the entire document.

The lead Viewer developer told me:
The problem is that standard regexp's requires all text to work correctly. We can merge all text from all pages in the selected range range but standard regexp's can take a lot of time time and use lots of memory if there is a huge amount of text..
In the future we can investigate this problem an try to find good solution but not in this time.
hth
Cool. Thanks!
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Re: search by regular expressions

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:)
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