Remove all lines containing a specific string

Question

I have a big file and I want to remove all the lines that have the word date

For example:

{
  date: 10291992
  stuff: stuff
  ...
},
{
  date: 02171995
  stuff: stuff
  ...
},

...

So I want to remove all the lines that contains the word date but since each date has a different date, I can't just ctrl f and replace it. I was reading that putting ^.* in the front but it didn't work for me.

I'm currently using Sublime Text 3.

Thanks.

Answer 1

All you need to do is open the Find dialog (Find -> Find...), search for date, hit Find All to select all instances of your search pattern, then select Selection -> Expand Selection to Line. Hit Delete and you're all done.

Answer 2

I tried to follow the accepted answer but found it wasn't working for me: the Expand Selection to Line button was not expanding the selection for all the matched lines.

What did work, though, was to switch to regular expression mode (the *. button on the left of the Find menu) and do a search for

\n.+date.+

replacing it with an empty string. This removes the entire line (i.e., doesn't leave an empty line in its place).