Finding and deleting entire paragraphs.
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I would like to find all paragraphs in a document that do not contain “2016” and delete them. Is there an expression for that?
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Probably but can you be precise as to what your meaning of paragraph is?
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Sorry for not replying earlier. I’ll watch more closely from now on. By paragraph I mean a string between paragraph markers. In notepad++ they show as two black boxes that say “CR LF”
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Well, most people call what you’ve defined “lines” and not “paragraphs”, but that’s why I asked.
You can remove all lines not containing 2016 as follows:
Find what:
^((?!2016).)*\R
Replace with: make sure this is empty
Search mode: Regular expression -
That works. Thank you very much!