How to find text, then delete the next line?

Scott DuBose

How can I find text, then delete the next line? I know how to find the text, but how do I tell N++ to then delete the line following?
Or… find text, bookmark the line following?
Thanks…

Terry R

@Scott-DuBose said in How to find text, then delete the next line?:

How can I find text, then delete the next line?

You haven’t explained if you are finding text through a regular expression (regex) or just by searching for that exact text or manually.

The easiest method of removing a following line is through a regex. It will allow you to search using a search pattern, then remove the folowing line. Example is

line here
line here
this line is what i want to find
this line I want to delete

Regex used would be similar to (using the Replace function):
Find What:^.*i want to find\R\K^.*\R
Replace with:empty field here

So the regex uses the first portion to find a line ending in “i want to find” followed by a carriage return/line feed. It then promptly discards that selection (using the \K) and then selects the complete line following and replaces it with nothing, so deleting it. If the following line is empty it will still work.

Terry

Scott DuBose

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Scott DuBose

Thanks, it worked! Example:

Message 34159
34158
2009-01-02 09:40:51

I Find: Message.?\R\K^.\r

Which then selects 34158 on the second line.

When I enter nothing in the “Replace with” field, and clicked " Replace" - it did nothing. But when I clicked “Replace All,” it cleaned all the lines I wanted gone. Thanks for your help…

Scott DuBose

Why are asterisks being removed from my post? Regex used is alt text

Alan Kilborn

@Scott-DuBose said in How to find text, then delete the next line?:

Why are asterisks being removed from my post?

Because this forum uses a form of “markdown” and the asterisk is a character that has special meaning. It adds italics if you wrap a word with 2 asterisks.

The way to get it to NOT interfere with your text is to use backticks around your text; then what you type will appear like this and will not be messed with.

Scott DuBose

Thanks, had to look up backtick… :-) Found it!

Scott DuBose

Thanks, in a document with 124,000 lines, this deleted 20,000 lines in about 10 seconds. Notepad++ is so awesome. Shoutout to Don Ho