Hi, @fernando-conti,
Very easy with regular expressions, indeed !
Open your file, in Notepad++
Move back at the very beginning ( CTRL + Origin )
Open the Find / Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )
Check the Regular expression search mode
Check, if necessary, the Match case option
In the Find what: zone, type the regex \[.+?\]
In the Replace with: zone, simply type the text that must replace all the [......] zones or leave it empty if you prefer to delete the [......] zones
Click on the Replace All button
Et voilà,
Notes :
As the symbols [ and ] have special meaning in regular expressions, they have to be escaped, both, to be considered as literal characters
The part .+? stands for the smallest range of characters, between the symbols [ and ]
For instance, given the example text, below :
This is a [123] test for searching [abc] all the [.......] zones !
The regex :
SEARCH \[.+?\]
REPLACE Leave EMPTY
modifies the text as below :
This is a test for searching all the zones !
If the regex was \[.+\], it would have select the largest zone between the symbols [ and ], that it to say, the string “[123] test for searching [abc] all the [.......]”, in our example. Certainly not what you’re looking for !
Best Regards,
guy038
