Thanks! I didn't realize that you could refer to a regexp pattern-match string within the <find> string.

Given your updated example, I ended up doing a simple REPLACE, finding "^(.*)\n\1$", replacing with "\1". :) Of course, I had to perform the search & replace several times to get rid of the ...

If I understand your script correctly, this macro simply removes multiple blank lines from the file... not the duplicated text *on* the lines...?

Example:
fred@foo.com
mary@foo.com
mary@foo.com
mary@foo.com
tom@foo.com
tom2@foo.com
victor@foo.com
victor@foo.com
william@foo.com
william@msn.com

The ...

I've got a file of a few thousand email addresses and I'd like to delete all the exact duplicates but I can't figure out how to do it... anyone?

I want to eliminate all lines from my file that do NOT start with the string "@ClientToken". I know how to search for ^@ClientToken, and that finds each occurrence of the lines that I want to keep... how do I search for lines that do not start with this string? I've tried encapsulating the string to ...