Delete lines of text

[David G. Smith]

I have a document that is over 5000 pages long and I
would like to use the replace command to find a line that
has (REFN: ^#^#^#^#) and then delete each line that has
this pattern. there is about 8000 line that use this
pattern. How can I delete all of then at the same time?

 

[Jezebel]

If the line has nothing else in it, search for REFN: ^#^#^#^#^p and replace
with nothing. The ^p at the end means the paragraph mark.

 

[DavidG. Smith]

The line has nothing else and I need it to delete the
line and then the space also so it was like the line was
never there.

 

[Jezebel]

That's exactly what that find-and-replace will do.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Jezebel's answer is correct if the search pattern is literal text - if the
^#^#^#^# bit represents a number, then what format is that number in.

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