Need help please

[Andrew Hood]

Offer Kaye wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:03 PM, marvin carandang wrote:
> 
>>Hello Nedit Experts,
>>
>>I have a long list of digital pattern and would like to delete certain groups of texts in between. I attached a snap-shot below. ( I just changed the content due to confidentiality reasons):
>>
> 
> 
> Since nedit's find-replace dialog can use regular expressions it is
> quite powerful. If you type the following in the Find field of the
> Replace dialog:
> 
> (Page\s+\d+).+\n(?n.+?)Example\s*\n
> 
> and the following in the Replace field:
> 
> \1\n
> 
> 
> This should do the job. Of course you need to check the "Regular
> Expression" checkbox before hitting the "Window" button.

One caveat. The default maximum length of a search/replace string is
possibly not enough. Recent versions of source/nedit.h have:

#define SEARCHMAX 5119

If you are happy building your own version you can increase this and
recompile. I usually change it to 32767.


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