Delete line containg a word + previous line

Anass Chawki

Hello Guys ,

I would like to get the code that deletes every line containing this /movie/ and the previous line ( / is included )

Thanks in advance

Alan Kilborn

Ugh. You can’t give a better spec than that?

How about a bit of sample data, even if you have to make it up?

guy038

Hello anass-chawki, and All,

Quite easy with regexes ! So :

Et voilà !

Remarks :

If you’re looking for the word movie, in any case ( for instance /MOVIE/ or /MoviE/ ), change the first part of the regex (?-is) with the syntax (?i-s)
On the other hand, if you want to delete the line containing /movie/ and a true empty line, above, use the syntax below :
SEARCH (?-is)^.*\R.*/movie/.*\R

Notes :

First, the in-line modifiers (?-is) :
- Forces the search to be processed in a non-insensitive way
- Forces to regex engine to interpret any dot ( . ) as representing a single standard character, NOT EOL character(s)
Then, the part ^.+\R looks for a complete non-empty line, with its EOL characters
Finally, the part .*/movie/.*\R searches any range, even null, of standard chars .*, followed with the string /movie/, with that exact case, and finally followed with an other range, even null, of standard chars .* and ended with its EOL chars \R
This selection of complete two lines is, then, deleted, due to the Empty replacement zone

Best Regards,

guy038