Regex to search text within \s

Question

I’m trying to do a search for all section headings that start with certain particles and end with a vowel without accent.
E.g. it should find:
\s Ko te ongo tangata langa fale
but not:
\s Ko te ongo tangata langa falé

I used the following Regex:
regex:\s Ko te .?[aeiou]\s\

However, this does not work: Paratext does find all section headings that start with “Ko te”, but also finds those that don’t end with a plain vowel. For the latter, the search result includes all text down to the next section heading that does end with a plain vowel. For example, one search result is:
\s Ko te fu’u 'akau mo tono fuá \r …. [lots and lots of text] …. \s Ko te fakatokanga

I would have expected that the use of *? (not greedy) would take care of this, but apparently it doesn’t.

I also tried variants like
regex:\s Ko te .?[aeiou]\ (only faulty hits)
regex:\s Ko te .?[aeiou]\s*\r\n (no hits)

Is there another way which does work?

Thanks in advance!
Paulus+Kieviet

Answer 1

I just noticed that some text in my previous post didn’t come through correctly. (The asterisks in the text were interpreted as italics markers.) Below is a corrected version.

Paulus+Kieviet

Comments

Try this for search: regex:\\s Ko te [^\\]+[aeiou] \\
N.b. On this forum. you can use the style “preformatted text” to show your characters exactly how you type them in:

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That worked. So the trick is to exclude backslashes. Thank you!

Paulus+Kieviet