Visual Studio Code - Removing Lines Containing criteria
This probably isn't a VS Code-specific question but it's my tool of choice.
I have a log file with a lot of lines containing the following:
Company.Environment.Security.RightsBased.Policies.RightsUserAuthorizationPolicy
Those are debug-level log records that clutter the file I'm trying to process. I'm looking to remove the lines with that content.
I've looked into Regex but, unlike removing a blank line where you have the whole content in the search criteria (making find/replace easy), here I need to match from line break to line break on some criteria between the two, I think...
What are your thoughts on how criteria like that would work?
Solution 1:
If the criteria is a particular string and you don't want to have to remember regexes, there is a few handy keyboard shortcuts that can help you out. I'm going to assume you're on a Mac.
- Cmd-F to open find.
- Paste your string.
- Alt-Enter to select all of the instances of the string on the page.
- Cmd-L to broaden the selection to the entire line of each instance on the page.
- Delete/Backspace to remove those lines.
Solution 2:
I think you should be able to just search for ^.*CONTENT.*$\n, where the content is the text you showed us. That is, search on the following pattern:
^.*Company\.Environment\.Security\.RightsBased\.Policies\.RightsUserAuthorizationPolicy.*$\n
And then just replace with empty string.