Regular Expressions 101

.*any Unicode character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

BOURKEthe literal text BOURKE (case insensitive)

Negated Character Class[^\r\n]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\ra carriage return (ASCII 13)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

Global pattern flags

i modifier: insensitive. Matches without distinguishing uppercase and lowercase letters

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

Search reference

Regular Expression

.*BOURKE[^\r\n]*

New

initial text
preliminary text
unfinished line bfore the line I want
001 BOURKE, Bridget Mary ....... ........... 13 Mahina Road, Mahina Bay.Producrs/As 002 BOURKE. David Gerard ...
line after the line I want
extra text
extra extra text