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Jean
Jean

Reputation: 31

Removing lines in Notepad ++

I'm editing a long list of 5 numbers in Notepad but need to remove every line that begins with 2. How do I do this? Example list below...

1 9 11 18 29

2 9 11 18 29

3 9 11 18 29

4 9 11 18 29

5 9 11 18 29

6 9 11 18 29

1 2 12 18 29

2 3 12 18 29

2 4 12 18 29

1 5 12 18 29

Upvotes: 2

Views: 258

Answers (2)

Josh Withee
Josh Withee

Reputation: 11336

Use Notepad++ regex Find-and-Replace:

Find what:

^2[\s\S]+?^(?=\d)

Replace it with nothing.

Upvotes: 0

Bill the Lizard
Bill the Lizard

Reputation: 405765

Find ^2 (.*)$ and replace with nothing. This will replace each list of five numbers starting with a 2 with a blank line.

Alternatively, you can go to the Mark tab on the Search dialog, Bookmark the lines that match the pattern above, then Search > Bookmark > Remove Bookmarked Lines. This will completely remove lines that start with 2.

Upvotes: 2

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