Regular Expressions TExt Editor

[JoderCoder]

Wondering if anyone has a suggestion on what regular expression text editor to use? I have been using only notepad so far, bu need some more sophisticated app to analyze logs etc.. Basically i need to be able to say "delete all lines containing this pattern" or everything but..

I heard of vim but i think it is for unix mostly (heard that ported to windows as well).

Any other suggestions?

BTW, i need a freeware tool ;)

Thanks!

[JosAH]

Wondering if anyone has a suggestion on what regular expression text editor to use? I have been using only notepad so far, bu need some more sophisticated app to analyze logs etc.. Basically i need to be able to say "delete all lines containing this pattern" or everything but..

I heard of vim but i think it is for unix mostly (heard that ported to windows as well).

Any other suggestions?

BTW, i need a freeware tool ;)

Thanks!

vim (or gvim) had its origins in Unix but it does fine on a windows box:
http://www.vim.org

kind regards,

Jos

[JoderCoder]

thanks Jos,

installed gwim..

I am really a newbie in this kind of scripting, but as far as i can see, i need to write a script (.vim) and run the script when i load my log file.

I want to remove the lines containing this phrase for example "FromOS"

Can someone please help me on how to work this out?

[JosAH]

thanks Jos,

installed gwim..

I am really a newbie in this kind of scripting, but as far as i can see, i need to write a script (.vim) and run the script when i load my log file.

I want to remove the lines containing this phrase for example "FromOS"

Can someone please help me on how to work this out?

You can do it like this in vim:

1,$s/FromOS/d

(skip the leading line #1)

kind regards,

Jos

[JoderCoder]

You can do it like this in vim:

1,$s/FromOS/d

(skip the leading line #1)

kind regards,

Jos

thanks Jos, i had do it like this

1,$g/FromOS/d

i would really appreciate if you could assist me with this a bit further. I wonder how can i delete every other line, but the lines containing "FromOS"?

thanks!!