Notepad++ is there a way to extract all lines that contain a certain search string?
 

say I have a huge text file that I want to condense down to just the lines that contain a certain word or words


is there an easy way to do this with Notepad++ ?

how about any other easier solutions?

You're looking for 'grep'. Part of unixutils. You can download it by itself. It runs via command line.

Simple use: grep <whatyouwant> filename > foundlines.txt
Case insignicant: grep -i <whatyouwant> filename > foundlines.txt

try motepad