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[topdawg_b]

I have a file it is a text file it's dedigned like this.

word1 info about word 1
word2 info about word 2
word3 info about word 3

the file is called trigger.txt

i want to delete a line. like seek out word2 if the text line begins with word2, delete that whole line. leaving the file

word1 info about word 1
word3 info about word 3

what is the most effecient wat of doing this?

[vigilant]

You delete it by using lsearch function, renaming the file, and then replacing.
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[topdawg_b]

I know how to use the lsearch command
not sure what you mean by renaming it and replacing it.
this is what I have so far
thestb would have the "word2" in the exaple i gave

[topdawg_b]

this is what i came up with while i was waiting. I am sure there are errors even though it seems to work. please advise on inproper syntax. thanks
where test.ins has 3 lines in it
line 1
line 2
line 3
command = test:del file.ins 1
file becomes
line 1
line 3

[nml375]

There are numerous approaches to do this.

Going with your first approach, you've determined the list offset of the wanted line. Having that, creating the new file would be a mere matter of using lreplace to replace (remove) the list item from the list, using join with a custom separator (similar, but the opposite, to split) to convert the new list to a string, and writing it to the new file.

A somewhat different approach, would be to read the file and convert it into a list (like before), but rather than using lsearch, simply use foreach to iterate through the whole list and test each item for the keyword, at the same time writing any non-matching line to the new file. This will provide more powerful tools for the matching, but will use more resources while running.
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[topdawg_b]

shouldn't this line

[nml375]

The only limit is memory, as read will try to read as much data at once as possible from the file.

Although not a limit for the script, time might be a limit for your eggdrop, as while this script is processing, no other actions will be taken, possibly causing your eggdrop to ping timeout, etc..

For huge datasources, I'd suggest something like below. Keep in mind that this will only process one line per second, so filtering a huge file will take considerable time, however, since it's driven by timers, your eggdrop will remain responsive meanwhile. It also implements a simple filelock to prevent multiple filterings at once.