Simple replace / to hard for me

[Sascha Holliger]

Hi, can anyone please help me with this simple problem?

in a file I need to search for numbers like this:

*1234567890

the numbers are always changing, but I need to get the Asterisk (*) removed.

the replacement dosen’t need to be the same number, just the Asterisk need to be removed.

so from this: *1234567890
to this : 0000000000

would be fine!

Thanks if anyone can help!

Regards, Sascha

[Claudia Frank]

Hello @Sascha-Holliger,

in replace dialog check regular expression.

Find what:\*(\d+)
Replace with:\1

as * is a known char in regex we need to escape with \
(\d+) = this matches any size of numbers and get stored in \1

Cheers
Claudia

[Sascha Holliger]

Thanks, but it should only replace numbers with 10 digits… there are a lot of numbers in that file, only if the number has a leading * and is followed by 10 digits it should be replaced.

[Claudia Frank]

In find what replace the + with {10}

\*(\d{10})

Cheers
Claudia

[Sascha Holliger]

worked! Thanks Claudia!