Regex: Remove lines containing "help", etc
This is also possible with Notepad++:
- Go to the search menu, Ctrl + F, and open the Mark tab.
Check Bookmark line (if there is no Mark tab update to the current version).
Enter your search term and click Mark All
- All lines containing the search term are bookmarked.
Now go to the menu Search → Bookmark → Remove Bookmarked lines
Done.
Another way to do this in Notepad++ is all in the Find/Replace dialog and with regex:
Ctrl + h to bring up the find replace dialog.
In the
Find what:
text box include your regex:.*help.*\r?\n
(where the\r
is optional in case the file doesn't have Windows line endings).Leave the
Replace with:
text box empty.Make sure the Regular expression radio button in the Search Mode area is selected. Then click
Replace All
and voila! All lines containing your search termhelp
have been removed.