How to remove text between two specified strings using Notepad++?

PRATAP CHAVA

I have following lines of data

File created by
Status 23:
Status 24:
Status 25:
Status 26:
Status 27:
Status 28:
Status 29:
Status 30:
Status 31:
Address
Address 112: 044 0891.
Address 113: 044 1502.
Message log (200 messages)

Message 1:
Message 2:
Message 2:
Message 2:
Message 2:
Message 2:

I wish to delete text between line 1(File created by ) and upto line “Message log (200 messages)”.

Can someone please provide some suggestions and thoughts on this?

Thank you very much.

chcg

Via regex search&replace:

Search term:

(?s)^\t*File created by(.|\r\n)*?Message log

Replace.with:

Message log

See also https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15765/faq-desk-where-to-find-regex-documentation
and most probably there are more elegant searches possible.

guy038

Hello, @pratap-chava and All,

Regarding your needs, I think that a suitable regex S/R could be :

SEARCH : (?s-i)^File created by.+?\RMessage log.+?$\R

REPLACE Leave Empty

Don’t forget to select the Regular expresion search mode and to tick the Wrap-around option

Notes :

At beginning of the regex, the modifiers (?s-i) mean that :
- The . dot regex character will match any single character ( Standard and EOL chars )
- The search is performed in a sensitive way. If you prefer insensitive matches just change that part with (?si) !
Then the part File created by.+?\RMessage log looks, from beginning ( ^ ) of line, for any text, beginning with File created by and ending at the first expression Message log, preceded by a line-break ( \R )
Now, the final part .*?$\R tries to match a range of any character, ending at the nearest end of line ( $ ), and followed with a line-break ( \R )

And, due to the empty replacement zone, all that block of text is, then, simply deleted !

Cheers,

guy038