title: How do you use Notepad++ regex pipe | for strings longer than one character?
body: <p>I'm trying to get notepad++ to regex find all instances of "abc" and "def" in the following sentence:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The abc went to the def.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>None of the following syntaxes seem to work:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>abc|def</li>
  <li>[abc|def]</li>
  <li>(abc)|(def)</li>
  <li>(abc|def)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>NOTE: "[a|d]" matches any instance of "a" or "d" when I tested</p>