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Regular expression search to find lines beginning with same characters


You can run a Regex search which will find consecutive lines that begin with the same characters. This search:


^((.{10}).*)(?:\r?\n\2.*)+


. . . will check the first 10 characters at the beginning of a line and check to see if the same 10 characters appear at the start of the next line.



. . . adding $1 in the replace window will remove each duplicate line.




Sean O'Shea has more than 20 years of experience in the litigation support field with major law firms in New York and San Francisco.   He is an ACEDS Certified eDiscovery Specialist and a Relativity Certified Administrator.

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