How do you use Notepad++ regex pipe | for strings longer than one character?

Question

I\'m trying to get notepad++ to regex find all instances of \"abc\" and \"def\" in the following sentence:

The abc went to the def.

Answer 1

Upgrade to Notepad++ v6. From the changelog: "PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) is supported." I've verified that | works in regex search when using Notepad++ v6.