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Re: How to kill line beginning with specific string
From: |
Giorgos Keramidas |
Subject: |
Re: How to kill line beginning with specific string |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:47:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (berkeley-unix) |
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:51:29 -0800 (PST), brooklynwhite <white805@umn.edu>
wrote:
> I need to figure out how to kill a series of lines in a text file that all
> begin with the same string. The format of the lines is:
>
> 2000 001 00 AIR TEMP 354
>
> The second and third expressions in the line change with subsequent
> lines, e.g.:
>
> 2000 002 01 AIR TEMP 354
>
> Is there a simple way for me to search for and kill all of these lines
> without having to repeatedly enter the search mode and type ctrl-k
> when the line is found? I realize this may be a silly question so
> thanks for your patience and help.
You can use `M-x flush-lines RET'. Note that the `flush-lines' argument
is a regular expression, but it should work fine for simple string
matching too.
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