how to save a the matching part of the file

Hi,

I'm comparing two files. The left file has more lines than the right file. The left file has different text than the right file, but in each line there are 8 characters that I match on. In other words, my rules are: where these 8 chars match, compare. Everything else is unimportant.

This gives me lots of lines on the left, and a lot of whitespace on the right, and a few lines that match up.

Example:

12345abcd 98765abcd
12345abcc
12345abcb
12345abca 12356abca

Then, I change my view to show only matches.

Example:

12345abcd 98765abcd
12345abca 12356abca

The data on the left is still somewhat different, but because of my rules, it is unimportant to BC.

Now, I want to save only the matching lines from the left file, so that I get a fewer number of lines.

Example New File Contents:

12345abcd
12345abca


How do I do that?

Re: how to save a the matching part of the file

I figured it out.

Select the left hand side records, then paste them into a new empty file.

Thanks!