Hi Again,

Turns out there are sometimes multiple lines both within my KEEP text and 
in my DELETE text.

le:
&&&
Line or Lines to be KEPT
###
Line or Lines to be DELETED
&&&
Line or Lines to be KEPT
###
etc.

Grateful for your help

On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 12:51:20 PM UTC-7, Kerri Hicks wrote:
>
> Use the Find dialog and turn on the "Grep" switch...
>
> 1) I have questions about this one. Are the lines to be kept and the lines 
> to be deleted always alternating? (e.g. there's always one to be kept, 
> always followed by one and only one to be deleted?) If not, I'd probably do 
> this one in two steps (first delete the hash lines and the deletable lines, 
> and then just go through and delete all the ampersands, so, use the same 
> expression as #2, and then do another search and replace for &&&\n). (And I 
> just saw that Sam mentions the same strategy. I started this email an hour 
> ago.)
>
> 2) ###\n.*?\n
>
>>
>>


 

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