Hi everyone. Let's say I've got a file which contains the same repeated parts of block of text. That block of text looks like we could say that we can create some kind of pattern from it... for example: 
line something starts here {
contains line 1
contains line 2
contains line 3
contains line 4
ends here }

next block of something starts here {
contains line 1
contains line 2
contains line 3
contains line 4
ends here }

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etc. That's the file construction. Now I need to look for the string which is always in front of "{" and depends on the action I need to for example cut whole block so from start to end, modify for example line 4, or replace line 2 to something. The problem is I know how to find it in the text file but the problem is how to do something like "find this and since that delete next 4 lines and save the file". Thank you for your help. Regards, Jarek

In reply to Replacing, cutting, deleting lines in the file by Jarek

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