RE: Select entire line based on tag, then export only those lines of text

Charles Campbell provided a good answer, but for a 1.5GB file
you must have a lot of RAM, and you must disable some features
before starting.

First, use your operating system to copy yourtabdelimitedfile to
ambulance-only-file.

Then do the following:

vim (or gvim)
:set eventignore=FileType noswapfile undolevels=-1
:e ambulance-only-file
:v/\c\<ambulance\>/d
:wq

However, that is really asking a lot, and it may take a long
time. Vim is for editing a file, not for filtering a 1.5GB
monstrosity.

John


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