In my tree I have many duplicate notes, once restricted and once public.
I want to delete the public one, probably by using a regular expression.
1 FACT 1495
2 TYPE CBG-PKPL
1 FACT 1495
2 RESN CONFIDENTIAL
2 TYPE CBG-PKPL
The value 1495 is different in each record.
I tried to search
1 FACT %1\n2 TYPE CBG-PKPL\n1
replace by an empty field
and using Search mode Regular expression.
What is going wrong?
Best regards,
Marianne
Every time someone posts a question about regular expressions I spend far too long trying to figure out which REGEX dialect is required. Can this be posted somewhere easy to find, please??
When you ask "What is going wrong?", do you mean (a) the pattern does not find anything, or (b) the substitution doesn't change anything, or (c) something else? It's hard to help without knowing....
From the top of my head, it seems that the "1" at the very end of the pattern is the start of the next line (presumably the second occurence of 1 FACT ..." that contains the restriction), so the replacement pattern should be "1" rather than an empty field.
Beyond that, I don't know how to interpret "%1" which presumably is supposed to match the rest of the line somehow. In particular, it doesn't appear in the REGEX "cheat sheet" I found at github:
remram44.github.io/regex-cheatsheet/regex.html
