Behaviour of regular expressions changed 2 months ago

[fraternl]

I noticed a change in behaviour 2 months ago when using regular expression.
I made a ticket, but it was just closed without a change in code.

#8996

I used a regular expression to remove superfluous musical notes in the middle of a "paragraph".
I only want a musical symbol at the start and at the end. Not on each line within the 2 rows

In this example there are 4 musical symbols, but I only want 2.

<i>♪ You liked him? ♪
♪ - Oh, it's beautiful. ♪</i>

With the expression "** ♪$**" only the 2nd one should be removed.

I now know what has changed.
What has changed is that there's only 1 line ending in that text.
Before it would also see the <br> as a line ending.

I can make this new behaviour to good use by using this expression "^-" to remove the dialog dash of the first line.
The 2nd line with the dash will then remain.

It does this only when you use "replace" repetitively,
If you use "replace all" all of them will be removed.

I wonder if the behaviour change is intended.
Like I wrote.... I can now put it to good use.

I have a workaround for removing the musical symbols and use the expression ♪\r\n♪ and replace it with \r\n

[techguru0]

wonder if SE could use code from notepad++ for the search and regular expression
it has really good options for this