Cmd-F to open the search dialog.
Use this “Find” string: (?s)(?<=\bAAA\b).*?(?=\bBBB\b)
Make sure “Grep” and “Case sensitive” are checked.
Make the “Replace” string empty.
Click “Replace All”.
\bAAA\b and \bBBB\b match “AAA” and “BBB” only when they appear as complete
words. If that isn’t what you want, omit the \b markers.
(?<=\bAAA\b) means that the matched string must be immediately preceded by AAA,
but that the AAA isn’t part of the matched string. Similarly, (?=\bBBB\b) means
that the matched string must be immediately followed by BBB, but that the BBB
isn’t part of the matched string.
.*? matches the string between the AAA and BBB. Using .*? instead of .* means
that if there are multiple BBBs in the file, the match is only up to the first
one, not the last one. Enclosing it in (?s:.*?) means that . will match line
breaks as well as ordinary characters, so the matched string can span multiple
lines.
Example:
Initial file contents:
hello mother
AAA
this
is ?::k
BBB
hello father
After the replacement:
hello mother
AAABBB
hello father
Note that this does exactly what you described: everything between the AAA and
BBB is deleted, including all the line breaks, so they end up jammed together.
If what you really meant was that the AAA and BBB should each stand alone on a
line of its own, and that only the lines between them should be deleted, then
this Find string will work: (?<=^AAA\n)(?s:.*?)(?=^BBB$)
(?<=^AAA\n) says that the prefix string is a line containing just AAA, and
includes the line break at the end of the line, so the matched string does not
include the line break. (?=^BBB$) says that the suffix string is a line
containing just BBB, not including the line breaks, so the line break before
the suffix string is part of the matched string.
Regards,
Neil Faiman
On Sep 18, 2021, at 4:56 AM, Nowaki A <dreamland...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a thousands of word file with the contents I want to delete.
> All the contents I want to delete are between exactly the same two specified
> words.
> How do I replace or remove the contents?
>
> For example
>
> AAA
> ***************
> ***************
> ***************
> ***************
> ***************
> BBB
>
> * = The contents with all sorts of characters.
>
> I want to remove or replace everything between AAA and BBB.
> How do I do that?
> Please help.
>
>
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