notepad ++ match and delete

Question

I have the following text in notepad ++

192.168.0.1 37 ms N/A
192.168.0.2 Dead N/S
192.168.0.3 Dead N/S
192.168.0.100 37 ms N/A

I want to do a find and replace that matches "Dead" and eliminates the line with output like this:

192.168.0.1 37 ms N/A
192.168.0.100 37 ms N/A

Please note that I have used the following regex ^.*Dead.*$ that does remove the lines, but doesn't delete the empty spaces.

Answer 1

You can use two steps:

Use regex to replace matches for ^.*Dead.*$ with markedfordel

Then in extended mode, for matches of markedfordel\r\n replace with empty

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Answer 2

Go to the search then to the Mark tab, enter "Dead", check "mark line" and click "Find all". It results in bookmarks for all those lines.

In the search menu there is a point "delete bookmarked lines"

Answer 3

Combine/enhance/replace your regex with the solutions here: http://superuser.com/questions/35233/delete-blank-lines-from-a-text-file

Answer 4

You can use your first step to blank the lines that contain "Dead" in them, and then what I usually do is use one of the plugins typically included with Notepad++ to remove blank lines. To do that, I press Ctrl+A to highlight the entire document, then go to the TextFX menu (for the TextFX plugin), go to TextFX Edit, and then select Delete Blank Lines (about halfway down the menu). That will, as it said, remove all blank lines in the highlighted region.

Answer 5

Try a Regex replace in Notepad++ with:

(.*)Dead(.*)

That'll remove the lines for you.