Re: Find and Replace help please

2018-05-02 Thread Kerri Hicks
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 (

Re: Find and Replace help please

2018-05-02 Thread Sam Hathaway
To delete `###` and subsequent line: Find: `###\r.*\r` Replace: (empty) Grep: on Then, to delete lingering `&&&` line: Find: `&&&\r` Replace: (empty) Grep: off Hope this helps! -sam On 2 May 2018, at 13:25, Matthew London wrote: > Hi, > I have a file with the following: > > > &&& > TEXT STRIN

Find and Replace help please

2018-05-02 Thread Matthew London
Hi, I have a file with the following: &&& TEXT STRING I WANT TO KEEP ### TEXT STRING I WANT TO DELETE &&& TEXT STRING I WANT TO KEEP etc, where there is a linebreak after &&&, ###, and all text strings I need to process this text in two different ways; 1) I would like to remove ALL of the fol