删除所有行，直到Notepad ++中的特定行

Question

I have to edit a lot of source codes similar to each other.

random blah
 random blah
blah
<table style="width: 232px; font-size: small;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">....

What I want to do is to delete lines until table tag. I think I can do it with Regex search but I couldnt write the regex pattern. Thank you

Answer 1

You have to go through multiple steps to do what you stated above:

1. Go to the replace window, select the "extended" mode, and in the "find what" field type in " \\r\\n " and replace them with: " LINEBREAK " (theres a space after 'LINEBREAK'). Click on replace all.

2. Go to the replace window again, select the "regular expression" mode, and in the "find what" field type in "(.*)(.*)(<table)(.*)(>)(.*)(.*)" and in the replace with field, type in " \\2\\3\\4\\5 ". Click on replace all.

3. Now go to replace window again, select elect the "extended" mode, and in the "find what" field type in " LINEBREAK " (theres a space after 'LINEBREAK') and replace them with: " \\r\\n ". Click on replace all.

Notepad++ doesn't support multi line regex, which makes it hard to do what you wanted to do without going through the steps given above.

Answer 2

you can try something like:

(^.*$\n)*<table(.+)>

First group will match all lines before your table tag %)