Help with editing please

[Pindiu]

I have a set of 4 .srt files, and they all have extra numbers in each line that I need to edit out. e.g.

631
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,760
Some text here.
632
632

632
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:36,280
More text here.
633
633

Each number is there twice, and they are consecutive - +1 for each line.

Using Subtitle Edit, I can't seem to find a way to automatically delete them - Find & Replace doesn't work as each number is different.
I really don't want to have to edit each and every line - does anyone have any suggestions please?

[VelaOmsk]

Hi. You need a program to remove duplicate lines. Try https://ibox.tools/remove-duplicates
If it removes spaces, then load the result into Subtitle Edit.
If that doesn't work, upload a sample subtitle here to try other ways.

 

P.S. I didn't see that forgetit had already suggested a better solution.

Edited June 29, 2022 by VelaOmsk

[Pindiu]

Thank you for your replies. Bedtime here now, so I'll try your methods tomorrow.

But I fear removing duplicates will only remove one of the numbers per subtitle line, not both. I need both to be gone.

[TestosteronnieFlex]

This might remove more than what you asked for, but could also work ?‍♂️: in Subtitle Edit, go to Edit -> Replace, put

^\d\d\d

into Find what: and leave Replace with blank. Select Regular expression (not something I'm particularly knowledgeable about) and replace all.

Then a Fix common errors with Remove unneeded spaces should get rid of the left over line breaks.

 

EDIT: that's also a pretty bad regex, TBH, because I don't know regexes. Maybe add a \d? to the end if it misses some

Edited June 29, 2022 by TestosteronnieFlex

[Alice]

These "line numbers" are part of a subtitle sequence.
That is, Subtitle Edit treats them as part of the text, not an actual new line, or more accurately, sequence.
I don't know if @VelaOmsk's suggestion works.
@forgetit's and @TestoteronnnieFlex's approaches won't work, I'm afraid.
@forgetit's suggestion to use notepad++ does remove one of the duplicates.

I know nothing about regex, but, for what I gather, in order to remove these duplicates one would require some code doing something like this:
"Remove all consecutive lines of text that contain only digits
up to the one that has as next line an empty one. (or back-to-back line breaks)"
 

[VelaOmsk]

Pindiu, you can give us the subtitles if they're not secret, we'll try what we can do.

Edited June 30, 2022 by VelaOmsk

[Alice]

47 minutes ago, forgetit said:

My regex works in notepad++. In subtitleedit it might work in the source view.

I was having only SE in mind, and failed to test notepad.
Thanx for the input, @forgetit.
And no, I tested both views, column and source, on SE.

[Pindiu]

53 minutes ago, forgetit said:

My regex works in notepad++. In subtitleedit it might work in the source view.

Forgetit's method using notepad++ worked brilliantly.

Thank you all very much for the suggestions!