How to Delete Specific Text Lines with Find Feature in EmEditor - A Comprehensive Guide

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• December 14, 2006 at 3:38 pm #4057
  abgibbs
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  Hello all,
  Fist off — great editor! Best I’ve ever used, by a long shot.
  I need to remove all lines beginning with “IF EXISTS” from a couple thousand .SQL files, but I’m confused on how the “find in files” box handles regex.
  I *should* use:
  Find: IFs{1}EXISTS.+n
  replace:
  However, it doesn’t find any matches when I do this. if I remove the n from the “find” regex it finds all the corret matches but doesn’t include the CRLF at the end of the line. I want to remove the entire line, including the CRLF. Is there something weird about how the “find in files” handles end-of-line characters?
  Thanks!
  December 15, 2006 at 3:27 am #4062
  Yutaka Emura
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  The regular expression is correct if the Keep Modified Files Open is on. However, if the Keep Modified Files Open is off, you must use /r/n for a new line. So the regular expression should be
  IFs{1}EXISTS.+rn
  (if the Keep Modified Files Open is off in the Replace in Files dialog box).
  See Also How to Specify New Lines
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