[Mad]

I need a program, that i can set a word for him to search, and if found, delete a pre-defined numbers of lines, below or above.

Like search for the word "Telefone", if found, delete 7 lines above this word. And do this for the rest of the file.

Can it be done?
And yes, i know it sounds crazy...but look at my nick.... :thumb:

 

[Demigod]

I'm... not really sure what you mean. For your Telefone example you mean delete 7 lines above the word for each instance of the word?

I could probably code something like that in C++ or Java, although I'm kind of busy studying for my math exam at the moment.

 

[Mad]

Let me make myself more clear.
Actually i want to delete 19 lines, and i want to delete the line that contains the word i searched and the other 18 above it, no matter what they are - size, type, entry...
Oh, if it isnt ask to much, that i could change the word to be search.

 

[KillerShots]

Yeah... it can be done... pretty much any halfway decent shell script or C/C++ coder should be able to crank this sort of thing out in minutes. However, I know of no COTS program that does this....

 

[Mad]

Yeah... it can be done... pretty much any halfway decent shell script or C/C++ coder should be able to crank this sort of thing out in minutes. However, I know of no COTS program that does this....

COTS program?

 

[_01_]

it can be done in c/c++ or in java.

 

[KillerShots]

COTS program?

COTS = Commercial Off The Shelf - A common term for engineers. Sorry, I should have defined it.

 

[Mad]

Thx guys, now i know it can be done and im not that crazy

Any coder reading this? Just a simple GUI, and the ability to change the search terms is enough for me.

 

[Demigod]

Well, I made a program in Java that can do it. If you still need it then I can send it to you. I would have written it sooner but it's exam time here so I didn't have much time:S.

 

[Mad]

Yeah i really need it!
And if its not asking to much, could you make and option to export the search results?

 

[Demigod]

It's no problem, just glad I could help. The program I wrote should do what you're looking for. It allows you to open a file and view it, delete the lines as you described, save the search/delete results, and save the file. It has a GUI and allows you to enter the number of lines to delete as well as the keyword. It's written in Java so you need to have Java and JVM installed. I included a batch file to make it easy to run (just double-click the DeleteLine.bat file).