Im trying to pull all lines that aren't comment lines

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(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Im trying to pull all lines that “aren’t” comment lines

this pulls only comment lines…

(lines of file “C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts”) whose (it as string starts with “#”)

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(imported comment written by Lee Wei)

How about just using “does not start with”?

(lines of file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts") whose (it as string does not start with "#")
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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

a little addon to above,

if i wanted to remove any blank lines also ?

how would I format that

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Figured it out… no response required :slight_smile:

(lines of file “/etc/ntp.conf”) whose ((it as string does not start with “#”) and (length of it != 0))