Find lines and remove them

[Peter]

Hello

I use UE 10.10c and I want to

a) find lines matching some keywords
b) remove (!) them from my file

To find something, list the lines and copy them to clipboard is not the problem.

The question is: How to remove/delete the lines from file?

Peter

[Mofi]

Can be done with a regular expression replace. First determine which style you use for regular expression. Look at Advanced - Configuration - Find - Unix style Regular Expressions. If this option is not enabled, you use regular expressions with UltraEdit style.

To delete some lines with an UltraEdit style regular expression replace use following:

Find What: %*keyword*^p
Replace With:

% ... start of the line
* ... 0 or more occurrences of any character
^p ... line termination (CRLF = carriage return, line feed)

Run Replace All several times until search string not found anymore.

See help of UltraEdit for more details about regular expressions.

[Peter]

Mofi,

that's a way to delete the lines immediately without controling. But I would prefer a solution like this:

- search it
- list it in the window to control the results (that's important)
- remove it - if you want - or cancel it

Peter

[Mofi]

Then do not use "Replace All" but use normal replace with "Start" button. UltraEdit sets the cursor to the first line where your keyword is found and selects the line. Now you have several options like "Find Next", "Replace", ... It's simply a step by step replace with user interaction.