Notepad++ non-greedy regular expressions

Question

Does Notepad++ support non-greedy regular expressions?

For example for text:

abcxadc

I want to get parts using pattern:

a.+c

And now I get whole string instead of 2 parts. I tried to use the '?' operator but without success.

Answer 1

Notepad++ doesn't support the lazy ? modifier. Instead, you can specify what you don't want:

a[^c]+c

Which specifies: match a, followed by one or more character that isn't c, followed by c. This will match abc and adc.