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I hate to say it here, but EditPad Pro has this feature built-in. Enter your search string, click on "Fold lines", and all lines that don't contain the string will be collapsed.

I am new at Ultraedit, sorry just purchased the package. I have data that is to large for excel and was given instructions that I could use ^p 1050(end of line). My problem is I don't want to have the information after that line in the spreadsheet. How do I eliminate anything behind the 1050 or how so I remove those lines after the data is sorted? I can remove each line manually but that takes forever........Thanks for the help

I honestly don't understand your question. What is 1050? Could you describe in more detail what data you have and what data you'd rather have instead? Or did you mean that you want to delete everything after line number 1050? In that case, go to the beginning of line 1051, press Ctrl-Shift-End and press Del. But I suppose that's not what you really meant, is it?

Sorry for not being clear. I have 200 rows of data that is longer then 1051 but I only need 0-1051. when I use the ^p 1051 in special functions I get the first 1051 in the first row and what is left over in the second row and it repeats this way. Now I have the information in row 1,2,4,6 and so on. Going to each line and manually deleting takes to much time and sometimes there are two lines of extra data that I don't need. How can I eleminate the extra data or run a macro or something to deleate it.

Example:
1TX502 326071059.1 0000007911LACE BOBBY W 319 PINE (keep)
2326071059.1 IL0030803078 G W ENGLISH/III,MD (remove)
1TX502 326071059.1 0000007911LACE BOBBY W 319 PINE (keep)
2326071059.1 IL0030803078 G W ENGLISH/III,MD (remove)
1TX502 326071059.1 0000007911LACE BOBBY W 319 PINE (keep)
2326071059.1 IL0030803078 G W ENGLISH/III,MD (remove)
2326071059.1 IL0030803078 G W ENGLISH/III,MD (remove)
1TX502 326071059.1 0000007911LACE BOBBY W 319 PINE (keep)

As Mofi has suggested above, you could use a Perl Regular expression to save only the first 1051 characters per line in a search and replace.

In the example you gave
if we do a Perl regex search for
^(.{1,57}).*$
and replace with
\1

we end up with
Just use
^(.{1,1051}).*$
instead.

Using {1,1051} will retain all lines shorter than 1051 as well.
If you wanted only the first 1051 of the lines that were at least 1051 long, use {1051}.

I'm using Ultraedit version 13.20

Cordially,
Jane

Thank you guys so much for your help, but if you could point me in the right direction to enter this string I would appreciate it very much.

My suggestion is to use TextHarvest from Parse-O-Matic.
Define a tool with something like this command line:
"C:\Program Files\PinnSoft\TextHarvest\TextHarvest.exe" /i"%F" /o"d:\tmp\output.txt"
And then open the output file and make sure you set UE to automatically update changes.

TextHarvest is a very good replacement for grep. It is a windows application and very easy to use by setting the Keep List and Delete List (Note that you have to separate items in the list using the '/' character).

A note for UE R&D:
It's too bad that UE does not have this feature integrated with it, forcing users to use such "tricks" to Hide lines NOT matching search string. I relay hope this feature will be available in future releases of UE (preferable the filter method - no need to open 2nd outoput file).
UE is the best text editor I know and I really think it should provide this so-commonly-used feature.

Thanks

Hi,
Is there a way to delete lines that do not contain specified string using these new Hide lines/Show lines and Delete all Hidden Lines options?
I'm trying to remove lines that do not contain </Source> string from large txt file. "Show lines" option allows to show only lines that contain that string, but it does not allow to delete lines that are not displayed and do not contain that string using Delet all Hiden Lines option.

Example: need to remove lines that do not contain </Source> string from the following text:

<Source>Percent abc </Source><target>omn klp</Target>
<Source>Launch and select</Source><target>klm kom</Target>
<source>Linear</Source><target>line</Target>
<source>Linear<target>line
<source>gauge</Source><target>abc def</Target>

Regards,
Greg

Thank you for help.
1. I've already tried and retried the first solution and no lines are deleted.
Deleting lines works fine when I use option Hide Lines, and then Edit - Delete - Delete All Hidden Lines,
but it does nothing when I use option Show Lines, and then Edit - Delete - Delete All Hidden Lines.
Currently I'm using version 16.10.0.1021. I'm registered user of version 15 and not yet upgraded to version 16.

2. Pearl regular expression works great. Thank you.
Regards