Need to remove a lot of junk

seank · Post by **seank** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:16 am

I have a file that has over 7000 lines of text in it, and i need to remove a lines if they have a certain name in them. Like for example BellMobile

I tired doing an find/replace with *bellmobile* but that didn't work.

does anyone know how I can delete all the lines in this file that contain bellmobile?

jazzastronomer · Post by **jazzastronomer** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 3:39 am

Suggest you
1)
use [find] in conjunction with mark lines to mark any line that contain bell mobility.
then
2)
delete marked lines.

this approach requires less regex kung-fu <grin>

Search | Find... (<F5>):

Find what: bellmobility

[X] Regular expression

Mark All

Search

then

Edit | Delete | Bookmarked Lines

seank · Post by **seank** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:21 pm

perfect thank you

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 4:53 pm

Search | Replace... (<F8>):

Find what: .*bellmobile.*\n
Replace with: [nothing]

[X] Regular expression

Replace All