If I'm understanding try
Find:
<DataElement>((?s).+?)</DataElement>
Replace:
\1



On Monday, April 22, 2019 at 4:10:31 AM UTC-4, Gustave Stresen-Reuter wrote:
>
> Thanks to everyone. 
>
> I had forgotten about bbfind but the solution I ended up using was what 
> Rich had suggested: Extract (and then a bit more processing on the net 
> result). Also, I had to fiddle a bit with the RegEx as it was being too 
> greedy. I'm still struggling to attain expertise with non-capturing parens 
> and positional assertions. Specifically, given:
>
> <DataElement> Fusce rhoncus, elit.
> [Aenean] eget es?
>    Nulla et arcu.
> </DataElement>
>
> I'd like to find "Nulla" where the text before and after can be anything 
> except </DataElement> (in other words, the contents of an element).
>
> Years ago (20?) I saw an article that suggested breaking the text up into 
> (repeatable) fields using RegEx. At the time this seemed so advanced it was 
> more than my little brain could process, but the idea has stuck with me and 
> I now wonder if it would be a better approach than what I'm trying to do.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 9:02 PM Christopher Stone <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> On 04/19/2019, at 07:53, Gustave Stresen-Reuter <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>> The problem here, though, is that the search results are sent to a search 
>> results window. Is there any way to recreate the behavior of the grep 
>> command above (the output is just the matching data with no filename, line 
>> number, nor context)?
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Hey Ted,
>>
>> Try using the `bbfind` command line tool instead of `grep`.
>>
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>> Chris
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