Re: find and multiline delete

2008-07-04 Thread John W. Krahn
Brian Funk wrote: I need a starting point to learn to accomplish the following action: I need to take a plain text ascii file such as: Foo a line of variable text another line of variable text morelines and morelines Foo a line of variable text another line of variable text morelines and moreli

Re: find and multiline delete

2008-07-04 Thread Smoot Carl-Mitchell
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 21:32 -0500, Brian Funk wrote: > I need a starting point to learn to accomplish the following action: > > In short, I want to see "Foo" in the file and delete the next two lines > following. This pattern can repeat hundreds of times within the file and > spread across mult

find and multiline delete

2008-07-04 Thread Brian Funk
I need a starting point to learn to accomplish the following action: I need to take a plain text ascii file such as: Foo a line of variable text another line of variable text morelines and morelines Foo a line of variable text another line of variable text morelines and morelines Foo a line of v