how to extract?

zarate petery

Friends I need your help, how can I select only the lines that have only PACKS_2?

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AliMirzaei5778

follow these steps:
1 - press ctrl + H.
2 - press ‘mark’ botton.
3 - in ‘find what’, type ‘packs_2’.
4 - turn on ‘bookmark line’ and ‘normal’ in search mode.
5 - press ‘mark all’ and then ‘close’.
6 - press alt + s.
7 - press ‘bookmark’ bottom.
8 - press ‘remove unmarked lines’
that’s all.

zarate petery

@alimirzaei5778
could be done with regular expressions
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Alan Kilborn

@zarate-petery said in how to extract?:

could be done with regular expressions

You didn’t specify a problem that requires regular expressions to solve…

Neil Schipper

@zarate-petery said in how to extract?:

how can I select only the lines that have only PACKS_2?

All 6 lines of sample input contain PACKS_2 and other text. So none contain “only PACKS_2”.

Your sample output helps, but not completely. Did you mean “lines that don’t contain PACKS_1” or “lines that don’t contain PACKS_<anything besides 2>” or what?

zarate petery

@neil-schipper
lines that do not contain PACKS_1 and only the lines that contain PACKS_2 = [] remain

Neil Schipper

@zarate-petery

As a starting point, this regex matches all complete lines that do contain PACKS_1: ^.*?PACKS_1.*?$\R

You can use it in a Replace All operation with Replace field completely empty; this would delete all these lines.

This would meet the overall need with your sample data, but possibly not all of your real world data.