How to remove a whole line in VS code search and replace?

Question

The futurize automatically added some line into my codebase. Most of the time is on the first line.

from builtins import object

I would like to delete that line completely. So something like this

from builtins import object
import logging

will become

import logging

I have tried to use \b, that doesn't seem to work.

Do you mean with just the keyboard? I use the plugin IntelliJ Keyboard Bindings. Then I use command + delete on Mac, or Ctrl + Delete on Windows. — Brant Unger, Dec 02 '19 at 15:06
Does this answer your question? [Multiline regular expression search in Visual Studio Code](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52647894/multiline-regular-expression-search-in-visual-studio-code) — Mrkinix, Dec 02 '19 at 15:19

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 02 '19 at 15:18

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In order to remove completely a line in VS Code through "Search and replace" you need to enable the RegExp function, then you type the line you want to remove followed by a "\n" and you leave the Replace field empty.

answered Dec 02 '19 at 15:18

Mattia Bianchi

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I had to do `^[\s]*your text\n` to not mess up the whitespaces around the replaced text. – Artur Krajewski Mar 01 '23 at 06:39

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '22 at 14:47

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In addition to @Mattia's answer:

Alternatively you can use SHIFT + ENTER (instead \n) without enabling the regexp.

answered Jul 08 '22 at 14:47

Narek Ghazaryan

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How to remove a whole line in VS code search and replace?

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