Deleting members from Planning application

Hi everyone,
I need to delete about 600 members from a planning application. I dont want to clean up the load file and do the reaload once again. Is there a way I can delete load a file with just 600 members and they get deleted from the outline?

Thanks John for sharing your opinion. One of the senior consultants helped me out with this. The solution was fairly simple -
All the 600 members were children of different parents. So it was difficult to cherry-pick all of them. What we did is, we created a load file with 600 members (to be deleted from outline). We put those 600 members under one parent; somewhat like this
TempParent    member1*
TempParent    member2*
+.+
+.+
TempParent    member600*
Once I loaded this file to through load utility, it grabbed all those 600 members from their previous positions and placed them under TempParent*. Then I deleted TempParent.
Although I would like to know more about the solution you suggested. Is there an example on web that you can refer me to ??

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Smartlist extraction from Planning application

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i have a small question that possibly u can answer easily.
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[Thu Oct 27 18:16:18 JST 2011]Input file being read with UTF-8 encoding.
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Thank you for your reply.
With your help, I can verify it easier rather than creating dataform to verify it.
I have resolved the question now, the root cause is I had used the wrong parameter, shouldn't add '/N' in the command. for /N is a dry run to check whether there are error in CSV file, it won't perform metadata load.
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http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/2008/08/time-to-look-in-bin.html
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Edited by: Samantha on 2011-10-31 下午4:39

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