Delete line

[cisco779k]

Hi, I’ve one txt file like this:
Title: Fred Montana
Date: 31 Avril 2017

Title: Doors
Date: 22 may 2015

etc…

I want delete all lines with Date: …

I I’ve try with search & replaced with extended mode and entry Date: .* but not work…
How to del all line with text Date: … ??

[guy038]

Hello, @renso-petrulli,

Very easy, indeed ! You should have tried the Regular expression mode, instead :-))

SEARCH (?-i)^Date.*\R?

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Notes :

• The first part (?-i) forces the search to be sensitive to case. If the word Date may have any case, change for (?i)

• Then, the ^ symbol is an zero-length assertion, which means beginning of Line

• The part Date.* represents the word Date, followed by any range of characters, even empty

• Now, the \R syntax stands for any line-break ( End of Line characters )

• Finally, the ? quantifier, equivalent to {0,1} means that the line-break may be present or NOT ( case of a last line Date…, without any line-break, at its end ! )

• As the replacement zone is empty, the entire current line is deleted

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Note the difference with the following S/R

SEARCH (?-i)^Date.*

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

In that case, any line, beginning with the word Date, is replaced by a pure blank line

Best Regards,

guy038

[cisco779k]

Yes! Thank you very much!
Regards. RP