How To search for specific Sourcecode?

paul enggruber

Hello,

In Confluence I want to search for a specific part of the source Code of my page.

In fact I want to check IF this is part of my source Code:

<tr>  
    <th> USER </th>  
    <td>       
 <div class="content-wrapper">   
       <p>         
   <br/>        
  </p>      
  </div>     
 </td>   
 </tr>

Source Code that Looks like this should not be detected : 

<tr> 
     <th> USER </th>  
    <td>      
  <div class="content-wrapper">     
     <p>     
       <ac:link>      
        <ri:user ri:userkey="xxxx"/>     
       </ac:link>  
        </p>      
  </div>   
   </td> 
</tr>   

 Thanks!

Stephen Deutsch

I was going to suggest the Confluence Source Editor, but I found out that it doesn't support multi-line searches.

I think your best bet would be to click the "View Storage Format" option on the ••• menu and search that using something like Notepad++ that supports Regular Expression search. Then you could just search for something like 

<th>\s*USER\s*<\/th>\s*<td>\s*<div class="content-wrapper">\s*<p>\s*<br\/>\s*<\/p>

If you want to replace it with something else, you could do a search and replace and use the technique I wrote in this answer to change the source code:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Editing-Source-Code-in-Confluence/qaq-p/129384

However, this would only work for one page. If you want to do the search on multiple pages, then you might consider using the Confluence CLI app, which I believe also supports regex search.