Regular expression to search multiple strings (Textpad)

I'm a bit new to regex and am looking to search for multiple lines/instaces of some wildcard strings such as *8768, *9875, *2353.

I would like to pull all instances of these (within one file) rather than searching them individually.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I've tried things such as *8768,*9875 etc...

Solution 1:

If I understand what you are asking, it is a regular expression like this:

^(8768|9875|2353)

This matches the three sets of digit strings at beginning of line only.

Solution 2:

To get the lines that contain the texts 8768, 9875 or 2353, use:

^.*(8768|9875|2353).*$

What it means:

^                      from the beginning of the line
.*                     get any character except \n (0 or more times)
(8768|9875|2353)       if the line contains the string '8768' OR '9875' OR '2353'
.*                     and get any character except \n (0 or more times)
$                      until the end of the line

If you do want the literal * char, you'd have to escape it:

^.*(\*8768|\*9875|\*2353).*$