> IIUC you want to delete lines that look like english words. Try a
> suitable match pattern and run the command
>
> %g/englishwordpattern/d
>
> difficult if those noise words can be anything.
>
> --
> regards,
> ====================================================
> GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24
> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3

just so everyone knows this has been solved (see below)...but for some
reason when i marked it as solved it got posted as a new topic (Re:
Regex help for huge csv file[SOLVED]).  Not sure why that is but below
is the solution i wound up using.

>>Well, if they all start with an asterisk in the first column, you
>> may be able to use my first one to get rid of the unwanted data,
> >and then take a second pass to recolumnize the remaining ones:
>
>I wound up doing just that.  I went through and added an asterisk to
>the ones that needed to keep, then removing every line that didn't
>match my pattern.  After that was done I recolumnized the remaining
>entry Part Numbers. Now all is good!
>
>Thanks again to all you guys for learning me in the ways of list
>posting (I'm definitely a n00b if you couldn't tell!) ;-) and for the
>insight to the wonderful world of vim regex wizardry.
--Cheers
Blake
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