> 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
