IDE search and regular expressions

[Jacek Laskowski 57]

Does a files search from within the IDE (shift+ctrl+F), with Regular Expression enabled, support multi-line searches? I tried for an hour and did not get anything.
For example, I would like to find all public var sections located between interface and implementation in units.

Can the IDE do this?

[Anders Melander 1782]

I don't think you can match a regex across lines as you'd either need to specify the /s regex option (. matches newline) or use the \n meta character and the IDE's regex doesn't support either.

 

I do wish they would replace the IDE regex engine with something more complete.