>>I want the programs/methods that have a SQLEXEC followed by 'thealias' but not necessarily in the same line. This is close, but seems to be on the same line only.
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sqlexec\(.*'thealias'\)

As far as I understand gofish, there is no option to regexp over more then a line (this is an internal regexp option what I do not see exposed. Stupid VB regexp has no switch in the pattern as far as I know.)
Otherwise it would be a pain with something like sqlexec\s*\([^\)]*['"\[]thealias['"\]].*\) what still not include new line(s)

My idea:
use gofish to look up ['"\[]thealias['"\]] - regexp, the alias in string delimiters. And then, filter on the result to find sqlexec in the same method / procedure. gofish owns the ability of a second run / filter to the result.