On Sunday, March 04, 2018 10:26:51 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > First I need to eliminate the irrelevant text between "KEY2" of the > previous message and "KEY1" of the message of interest. It should be > straight forard to do in BASIC. > > But is there an already tested function for that?
Well, I would tend to use awk, sed, or perl, or even a "decent" text editor (or word processor) with decent support for regular expressions in the search and replace function. Multiline regexes will be helpful, at the moment I don't remember if they are supported in kate / kwrite. I have done stuff like this in nedit, even saving a series of search and replace functions as, essentially, a macro / script (I forget what nedit calls it). If you expect to do this often, I would think that developing a perl script would be worth the effort.
