Deleting lines that are longer than specified value

greg123 · Oct 06, 2010#12010-10-06T17:14+00:00

Hi,
1. I need to delete lines that are longer than specified line length (e.g. 180 chars). My macro works, but it's extremely slow.
2. It wolud be nice not to have to specify number of loops to run (50000 in this example).
Please help.

Here is my macro:

InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
Loop 50000
Key END
IfColNumGt 180
DeleteLine
Else
Key DOWN ARROW
EndIf
EndLoop

Mofi · Oct 07, 2010#22010-10-07T05:29+00:00

That can be done with a simple Perl regular expression replace.

InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
Bottom
IfColNumGt 1
InsertLine
IfColNumGt 1
DeleteToStartofLine
EndIf
EndIf
Top
PerlReOn
Find RegExp "^.{181,}\r*\n"
Replace All ""

The green part makes sure that last line of file has a line termination.

^ ... start of line.

. ... any character except new line characters like carriage return and line-feed.

{181,} ... the preceding expression (any character) at least 181 times.

\r*\n ... a carriage return 0 or more times followed by a line-feed. If your files are DOS files you can remove the * from this part of the expression.

greg123 · Oct 07, 2010#32010-10-07T18:07+00:00

It's very fast solution. Thanks for explanation.
Greg