remove line using "find in files"

[abgibbs]

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!

[Yutaka Emura]

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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