Hello Andreas Andreas Röhler writes: >> author = {somename}, >> editor = {}, >> title = {sometitle}, >> subtitle = {}, >> series = {}, >> url = {} >> >> I want to find a regexp that matches every line with empty {} except >> of the "subtitle line". I've come that far: >> > Got it with: > > [^s]?[^u]?[^b]?[^t]?[^i]?[^t]?[^l]?[^e] = {},?$ > > Please don't ask why :) That's working. Thanks. (I don't ask.) > Anyway--you will know that and it's not the precise > answer-- it might be useful to point at > > M-x shell-command-on-region > > grep {} | sed /subtitle/d > > as an easy-to-use solution. It's a good idea to use a sed pipe. But it doesn't matter how much there is to type, since I need the expression for a function. So I only have to type it once. Greetings Sven