Search and replace

Roel Jongman

I am editing a Gedcom-file with about 300.000 lines of text.
A normal line would be:
1 NAME John / Doe/

but some lines have only:
1 NAME

What can i do to to remove only these lines?

Ekopalypse

I would give it a try with the following regular expression

find: ^\d+ NAME\h*$
replace with nothing

This means the following:
Each line begins with one or more digits, followed by a space, followed by the literal word NAME, followed by horizontal spaces, such as space, tab…, or not, and then ends.

Roel Jongman

@ekopalypse said in Search and replace:

^\d+ NAME\h*$

Thank you this works fine for me.
Problem solved.