Esgrimidor: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I need to replace in an archive with more than 80000 lines those that begins with :
12 14 2 "- " "31 " etc replace with a null string but these strings also appears at the end or the middle of some lines. How can I propose exactly with regular expressions ? Best Regards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, if I understand correctly, you can use a regex pattern like: ^(12|14|2|- |31 ).* (replacing with empty string, with regular expressions checked in the replace dialog) ^ is a special character, which matches the beginning of the line (or of the whole string) in this case; than you can list the needed line beginnings separated by the alternation symbol | and enclose the alternatives in parens; .* matches anything that might follow after that until the line-end. hth, vbr -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,67876,67877> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
