DataMystic

Hi,
Restrict to: Blocks of lines...

I have just spent hours trying to figure out why this restriction would not work...I am pretty sure it is because there is a limit on the size it can handle.
Therefore, I tested with a replace filter and had to increase the the 'Maximum Match Size' in order for it to match. If this is indeed the problem then I am assuming that exposing the 'Maximum Match Size' for the Restrict to: Blocks of lines filter would fix it?

Just letting you know,

No, there is no restriction on size here, apart from your memory limit.

To test it working on a small number of lines, use a filter like this:
The restriction doesn't care about the number of lines, but the search/replace does (for efficiency).

What are you trying to do?

Here is what I am doing:

|--Restrict to blocks of 2 lines
| |
| +--Restrict to each line in turn
| |
| +--Restrict to between tags <table>...</table>

The "Restrict to blocks of 2 lines" fails at two lines that are a total of 17,000 characters in length, so if I...
Replace the "Restrict to blocks of 2 lines" filter with: Perl pattern [^.*\r\n.*\r\n] with [$0] and increase the Maximum text buffer size...it then works.

Thanks,

I'd be willing to bet that it doesn't I'll bet that you have an inadvertent CR or LF on the line somewhere. Place a Convert EOL filter at the top of your filter list - convert Auto to DOS, and see what happens then.

We'd love to see the sample data if this still doesn't work. The Restrict to lines filter doesn't use a pattern match - it uses a highly efficient state machine with no practical size limit.