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Simple GREP deletion of lines

I'd need a simple find and delete duplicate lines for a 16K items column.

VARIABLE NUMBERS(\t)PAGE NUMBER\p)

Thank you for help

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Correct answer Gioyer07

Solution (for newbies like me) has to follow these steps

1) clean the document from spaces, tabs etc. (use show hidden characters).

2) apply grep

find

^(.+\r)\1+
replace
$1

Community Expert

GREP is pattern-based. It looks like your pattern is:

a series of numbers, a tab, more numbers and a hard return.

If these are the only paragraphs in the file that follow that pattern, use:

Find what: \d+\t\d+\r

Change to:

Save the file first!

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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Thank you Barb

My attempts to use your syntax failed. It probably is my fault because I failed to describe better the text I need to clean.

It has this structure:

011101850 17
011101850 17
011102250 17

The same three lines look in the finder as in the picture:

I really appreciate your help. Thank you.

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