Hi, I need to Remove some lines from a big text file ?

Hello guys, i have this BIG text file (50 000 lines), each line contains a name, example:

Michael johnson
derrek pierre
joséph francois
sàphire moore
randy adams

i need to remove all the lines which contain international charcters like "é" , "à" .. and keep online lines with normal english alphabet, can you please suggest me the simplest way to do this, like a script, or batche file or something ?

thanks a lot of your help.

 

hi, well i actually, don't know all the international characters that i had in the file, and it's so BIG 50 000 lines, so i can't do it that way, since i have to discover the special charcters first, anyways, i did it the job with a small php script, thanks.

 

you can try other text editors...
we all know how slow notepad is... and is a bit short of functions (hey i do use notepad on a daily basis always have 3-4 notepads open in a normal work day)
this is fairly easy and fast...

or of course you can use a php script on it or other scripts (try to get a mass search and replace script handy in this cases)

 

Try notepad++

 

You need to remove the whole line with international charaters...not just those characters, right?
UltraEdit macros can do this. If you know VC++ or VB, this can be done quite easily.

 

of coz perl will handle that perfectly!

 

I could offer you the perl code if you need it