select text in a field by line number

[churchken]

Hi,

I'm befuddled -- not an uncommon situation for me

If a field contains 500 lines of text, and lines 1 to 25 should be deleted from that field, is there a quick way to "select" those lines as a "chunk" and empty them? I'd like to "hilite" that group of lines without the user needing to use the mouse to do so and then delete them.

It seems some combination of "the selection" and "hilitedLIne" should work, but I'm not figuring it out. Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,

[oliverk]

Hi Ken,

If you just want to delete the text, you can just do something like:

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delete line 1 to 25 of field "MyField"

But maybe you are trying to do something more complicated?

Regards
Oliver

[dunbarx]

As Oliver says, deleting is simple.

But I think you are asking for a nice way to select a certain block of lines (which may not be contiguous?). Such a process would be simple and fun to write, and there are a million ways to do it. And you do not want to use the mouse, which I can understand if you have a long list

Is there a certain criterion that distinguishes the lines to go on the block? A date or something in the text of the lines themselves? Write back with a bit more info as to your ideal way to do it.