Deleting a line having // at beginging

gout_text · Post by **gout_text** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:58 am

I am a new member and trying to use text pad as my editor.
I want to delete all lines which has // .
I tried some thing like
Find.*//.*
Replace "blank space"
but no luck

.
Could you help in getting this?
Thanks in advance.

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:00 am

Select Regular expression.

SteveH · Post by **SteveH** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:42 pm

If you only want to clear lines beginning with // use the following.

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^//.*

with regular expression enabled. The '^' symbol matches the start of a line.

Your original search string answers the question on how to "delete all lines which has //". The one above is for "Deleting a line having // at beginning".

Hope this helps.

Post by **MudGuard** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:41 pm

Searching for

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^//.*

and replacing by nothing does not delete the lines - for that it must be

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^//.*\n

Otherwise the line end will survive ...

gout_text · Post by **gout_text** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:00 am

Yes, this is giving me the desired results.
Thanks Steve, MudGuard and joseph for helping me in getting this.