How do i remove a duplicate line after a particular combination?

Tasos Akrido

Let’s say i have this in my notepad:

<path>./gamename1567/gamename1567.cue</path>
<image>C:/images/gamename1567/gamename1567.png</image>

And i want to do this:

<path>./gamename1567/gamename1567.cue</path>
<image>C:/images/gamename1567.png</image>

You can see the “gamename” is mentioned twice in the <path> section and i need that as is. But i want the second “gamename” removed if it’s in the <image> section.

There are thousands of lines with different “gamenames” in that text file. So i can’t just replace

“gamename1567.png</image>”

with

“</image>”

Because that will affect only one game in the list. I’m stuck!

guy038

Hello, @tasos-akrido and All,

Very easy with regular expressions !

Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )
SEARCH (?-s)^(\h*<image>C:/images)/.+(/.*\.png</image>)
REPLACE \1\2
Tick, preferably, the Wrap around option
Select the Regular expression search mode
Click once on the Replace All button or several times on the Replace button

Voila !

So, for instance, the text :

<path>./gamename1567/gamename1567.cue</path>
<image>C:/images/gamename1567/gamename1567.png</image>

<path>./gamename37/gamename37.cue</path>
<image>C:/images/gamename37/gamename37.png</image>

<path>./gamename12345/gamename12345.cue</path>
<image>C:/images/gamename12345/gamename12345.png</image>

would be changed into :

<path>./gamename1567/gamename1567.cue</path>
<image>C:/images/gamename1567.png</image>

<path>./gamename37/gamename37.cue</path>
<image>C:/images/gamename37.png</image>

<path>./gamename12345/gamename12345.cue</path>
<image>C:/images/gamename12345.png</image>

In addition this regex S/R can also manage this case :

<path>./gamename1567/aaaaa/bbbbb/ccccc/gamename1567.cue</path>
<image>C:/images/gamename1567/aaaaa/bbbbb/ccccc/gamename1567.png</image>

And, after replacement, you would get :

<path>./gamename1567/aaaaa/bbbbb/ccccc/gamename1567.cue</path>
<image>C:/images/gamename1567.png</image>

Nice, isn’t it ?

Best regards

guy038

Tasos Akrido

Thank you, it works :)