Regular Expressions TExt Editor

[JoderCoder]

Wondering if anyone has a suggestion on what regular expression text editor to use? I have been using only notepad so far, bu need some more sophisticated app to analyze logs etc.. Basically i need to be able to say "delete all lines containing this pattern" or everything but..

I heard of vim but i think it is for unix mostly (heard that ported to windows as well).

Any other suggestions?

BTW, i need a freeware tool ;)

Thanks!

[ogwaroj]

vim is good but there is also emacs (or a variation of that name). I believe both are available for windows. Emacs is part of the FSF stuff (GNU) and is most definitely free.

[JoderCoder]

Thanks!

Can I use Programmers Notepad for this?

like delete all the lines containing "bla di bla" for example

[JoderCoder]

Actaully i ended up using VIM..

I am really a newbie in this kind of scripting, but as far as i can see, i need to write a script (.vim) and run the script when i load my log file.

I want to remove the lines containing this phrase for example "FromOS"

Can someone please help me on how to work this out?

[ogwaroj]

I've not used vim a lot but as it is a derived from Unix's 'vi' I would imagine you can use all the editting facilities available including regular expressions etc.

If you want to dynamically run a scipt each time a file is loaded you can probably get 'ed', 'sed' or even 'awk' unix facilities for DOS. I am sure I have seen these available for free or not very much.

The 'man' pages for all these things are available onlne in numerous locations.

Cheers

Roj