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    Mon Onkel
    last edited by Jul 27, 2019, 7:40 PM

    Now to my second question: How do I delete blocks of text?

    The text immediately before the block is unique, and also the text immediately after the block. The blocks themselves are from 2 to maybe 50 lines long and starts and ends with the same group of words.

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      Ekopalypse @Mon Onkel
      last edited by Jul 27, 2019, 7:52 PM

      @Mon-Onkel

      I assume a regex could do the job but for this to make it work there is a need to know your data exactly.

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        Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
        last edited by Jul 27, 2019, 8:02 PM

        @Mon-Onkel

        So Notepad++ can do a few types of searches, one is a “normal” search where it searches for exactly what you type; a second type of search is called a “regular expression” search. In this 2nd type of search, certain characters that you type have special meaning, for example a . means to match any character, a * means to match the previous thing zero or more times, a ? following a * means to match the previous as few times as possible. Putting it all together, .*? could possibly come between your leading text and your following text.

        So as an example, abc.*?xyz would match any of the following (and many more):

        • abcdefxyz
        • abcdefghijxyz
        • the entire english alphabet, in order

        So perhaps .*? will appear in the middle of what you need, but @Ekopalypse is correct, we need more infos.

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          Mon Onkel
          last edited by Jul 27, 2019, 8:12 PM

          ****This is the longest block: ****

          Subject: Phonogram Digest V15 #1
          From: owner-phonogram-digest@phonogram.net (Phonogram Digest)
          Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 02:41:43 -0500
          To: phonogram-digest@phonogram.net
          X-Account-Key: account2
          X-UIDL: 1pAKuM2wD3Nl34c0
          X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
          X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
          Status: U
          Return-Path: owner-phonogram-digest@phonogram.net
          Received: from noehlo.host ([127.0.0.1]) by mx-stork.atl.sa.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id 1pAKuG2wD3Nl34c0; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 02:42:52 -0500 (EST)
          Received: from mail.phonogram.net ([69.20.22.243]) by mx-stork.atl.sa.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1pAKuM2rD3Nl34c0 for vinyl1@earthlink.net ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 02:42:52 -0500 (EST)
          Received: (from majordom@localhost) by mail.phonogram.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id p067fhr30987 for phonogram-digest-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 02:41:43 -0500
          Message-ID: 201101060741.p067fhr30987@mail.phonogram.net
          Reply-To: phonogram@phonogram.net
          Sender: owner-phonogram-digest@phonogram.net
          Errors-To: owner-phonogram-digest@phonogram.net
          X-ELNK-AV: 0
          X-ELNK-Info: sbv=0; sbrc=.0; sbf=0b; sbw=000;
          Reply-to: phonogram@phonogram.net

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            Ekopalypse @Mon Onkel
            last edited by Jul 27, 2019, 8:47 PM

            @Mon-Onkel

            … and what do you want to delete?

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              Mon Onkel
              last edited by Jul 27, 2019, 9:32 PM

              Everything from (and including) the first part of the first line Subject: Phonogram Digest
              to (and including) the last line Reply-to: phonogram@phonogram.net

              The text between those two lines are different in each block.

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                Ekopalypse @Mon Onkel
                last edited by Jul 27, 2019, 9:46 PM

                @Mon-Onkel

                for this given example a regualr expression like
                find what:(?s-i)Subject.*?Reply-to.*?\R
                replace with is empty
                would do it BUT this assumes that each block starts with Subject and ends with Reply-to and
                there is no Reply-to in between.
                Note, this search is case sensitive, meaning Reply-To and Reply-to is different.

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                  Mon Onkel @Ekopalypse
                  last edited by Jul 27, 2019, 10:08 PM

                  @Ekopalypse

                  Thank you. That worked with a little editing of the expression to
                  (?s-i)Subject: Phonogram Digest.?Reply-to: .?\R

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                    Alan Kilborn @Mon Onkel
                    last edited by Jul 27, 2019, 10:21 PM

                    @Mon-Onkel

                    Another gotcha when posting here is that when you use * it gets turned into an italics font. See that? So the regular expression you posted makes no sense. It should be, AFAICT, (?s-i)Subject: Phonogram Digest.*?Reply-to: .*?\R

                    You can get the special text I just showed by wrapping it in backticks, also known as grave accents.

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