^\s*case\s+.*?:\s*$ My tool reads a xml file to parse the soruce code files (like java, C++ etc..) to generate the line count, the above expression in my xml file makes all the lines which has only the word " case : " to get ignored. Could someone plese help me in below two cases to write above kind of expression. CASE1:- If any line starts with : (colon), then that line should be ingored. For example, in the below line the word END stars with : , so this line should be ignored. (there is no space betwwen : and END word) :END CASE 2:- if any line starts with the word struct then that line should be ignroed. for example, below line should be ingnored struct simple

In reply to regfular expression hlep by rajans

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