Deleting tables with regular expressions - regex

Question

Not really a specific question, since I don't know enough - more of a question on how to approach this.
Example file can be seen below:
LOADING CONDITION : 4-Homogenous cargo 98% 1.018t/m3, draught 3.35m
- outgoing
ITEMS OF LOADING
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CAPA ITEM REFERENCE X1 X2 WEIGHT KG LCG YG FSM
No (m) (m) (t) (m) (m) (m) (t.m)
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13 No2 CARGO TK P 1.650 29.400 609.04 2.745 15.525 -3.384 483.49
14 No2 CARGO TK S 1.650 29.400 603.61 2.745 15.525 3.384 483.49
15 No1 CARGO TK P 29.400 56.400 587.23 2.745 42.900 -3.384 470.42
16 No1 CARGO TK S 29.400 56.400 592.45 2.745 42.900 3.384 470.42
17 MGO tank aft 21.150 23.400 23.42 6.531 22.275 -0.500 15.70
18 TO storage tank 21.150 23.400 2.68 7.225 22.275 2.300 0.00
19 MGO fore tank 33.150 35.400 25.90 6.643 34.275 -0.212 0.00
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DEADWEIGHT 2444.34 2.828 29.007 -0.005 1923.52
SUMMARY OF LOADING
WEIGHT KG LCG YG FSM
(t) (m) (m) (m) (t.m)
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DEADWEIGHT 2444.34 2.828 29.007 -0.005 1923.52
LIGHT SHIP 634.00 3.030 28.654 0.000 0.00
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TOTAL WEIGHT 3078.34 2.869 28.935 -0.004 1923.52
LOADING CONDITION : 4-Homogenous cargo 98% 1.018t/m3, draught 3.35m
- outgoing
Damage Case : 1bott: all cargo & void3
Flooding Percentage : 100 %
Flooded Volumes : No.3 Void space P No.3 Void space S No2 CARGO TK P
No2 CARGO TK S No1 CARGO TK P No1 CARGO TK S
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WEIGHT KG LCG YG FSM CORR.KG
(t) (m) (m) (m) (t.m) (m)
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TOTAL WEIGHT 3078.34 2.869 28.935 -0.004 1923.52 3.494
RUN-OFF WEIGHTS 0.00 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.00 0.000
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DAMAGE CONDITION 3078.34 2.869 28.935 -0.004 1923.52 3.494
EQUILIBRIUM NOT FOUND ON STARBOARD
LOADING CASE :
4-Homogenous cargo 98% 1.018t/m3, draught 3.35m - outgoing
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WEIGHT KG LCG YG FSM CORR.KG
(t) (m) (m) (m) (t.m) (m)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL WEIGHT 3078.34 2.869 28.935 -0.004 1923.52 3.494
SUMMARY OF RESULTS OF DAMAGE STABILITY
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DAMAGE CASE % R HEEL GM FBmin GZ>0 GZmax Area
(deg) (m) (m) (deg) (m) (m.rad)
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1bott: all cargo & void3 100 0 EQUILIBRIUM NOT FOUND
% : Flooding percentage.
R : R=1 if run-off weights considered, R=0 if no run-off.
HEEL : Heel at equilibrium (negative if equilibrium is on port).
GM : GM at equilibrium.
FBmin : Minimum distance of margin line, weathertight or non-weathertight
points from waterline.
GZ>0 : Range of positive GZ limited to immersion of non-weathertight openings.
GZmax : Maximum GZ value.
It is one of many, they can differ a bit, but they all come down to tables in textual form. I need to clean up some items from them, before pasting them in a report.
So I was wondering - what would be the text way to delete a certain table. For example, SUMMARY OF LOADING (it starts with the line containing "SUMMARY OF LOADING" and end in the line containing "TOTAL WEIGHT").
How to match that table and delete it?

Answer 1

Try the following from within vim
:g/SUMMARY OF LOADING/, /TOTAL WEIGHT/d
sed works in the same way:
sed '/SUMMARY OF LOADING/, /TOTAL WEIGHT/d' input_with_tables.txt

Answer 2

Fredrik Pihl's solution with :g works well if you need to delete all such tables. For more specific edits, you could use my CountJump plugin to create custom motions and text objects by defining start and end patterns (like SUMMARY OF LOADING and TOTAL WEIGHT in your case), and then quickly jump to the next table and delete a table with a quick mapping.