Using FindInFiles to "head" files

[bookman]

I was trying to use "Find In Files" combined with Perl Regex to extract the first N lines from a group of files, and have the results in an output window.

I can use wildcards to grab a group of arbitrary lines just fine, but if I grab, for instance, 7 lines, and there are 70 lines in the file, I'll get 10 items found. But I only want to see the first one.

Is there any way to anchor a regex at the top of the file?
Or tell the routine to stop after the first expression is found in each file?
Or any other way to do this in UE?

[Mofi]

No, this cannot be done with a regex search.

You can use the following macro. It collects the first 7 lines of all opened files with a name (not new files) and paste it with the full file name to a new file. The opened files are saved before the macro really starts because they must be all modified temporarily by the macro and are closed without saving.

InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
SaveAll
Clipboard 9
ClearClipboard
Loop
Clipboard 8
IfNameIs ""
ExitLoop
EndIf
CopyFilePath
Top
"

File: "
Paste
"

"
Key DOWN ARROW
Key DOWN ARROW
Key DOWN ARROW
Key DOWN ARROW
Key DOWN ARROW
Key DOWN ARROW
Key DOWN ARROW
SelectToTop
Clipboard 9
CopyAppend
CloseFile NoSave
EndLoop
ClearClipboard
NewFile
Clipboard 9
Paste
ClearClipboard
Clipboard 0
Top
Key DEL
Key DEL

[bookman]

Thanks, Mofi. I'll give it a try and see how it does. I appreciate the help!