Replace all places of text that contain ips in brackets with nothing

Patrik Tamm

Title! I need help and it would be appreciated!

“max100:[216.36.165.77]naconnin” is one of the examples

Claudia Frank

use regular expression checked,

find what:

 \[\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\]

replace with:

[]

\d looks for any digit
{1,3} means digit must occur at least once and at most 3 times
the dot needs to be escaped by backslash if it sholud be used literally, same applies to [ and ]

Cheers
Claudia

Patrik Tamm

@Claudia-Frank said:

[]

Hello Claudia, it doesn’t seem to work. It throws me that nothing was replaced. Is it possible that it would delete all of the stuff inside the brackets?

Claudia Frank

@Patrik-Tamm

Is you cursor set on first line?
Do you use wrap around setting with file dialog?

Cheers
Claudia

Patrik Tamm

Thank You, it worked!

Patrik Tamm

@Claudia-Frank

Wait, it doesn’t still seem to delete everything inside the brackets. Sorry for your time but is it possible to make that it will find the brackets and remove everything inside them?

Claudia Frank

@Patrik-Tamm

it would delete IP’s, is there anything else inside?
If so, what COULD be inside?

Cheers
Claudia

Claudia Frank

@Patrik-Tamm

or the other way, is only the text inside the brackets which should be deleted?

If so, find

\[.*\]

and replace with

[]

Cheers
Claudia

Scott Sumner

@Claudia-Frank

I could tell from the very first posting that things were going to go the way they have…

guy038

Hi, @patrick-tamm, @claudia-frank and @scott-sumner,

Claudia, regarding your last regex, it would better to use a lazy quantifier, just in case of lines, as below :

This is [an example] of text with [some pairs] of square brackets, in the [same line] !

So a correct regex S/R should be :

SEARCH : \[.*?\]

REPLACE : []

OPTIONS : Regular expression and Wrap around and, maybe, . matches newline if brackets pair are split on two different lines !

ACTION : Click on the Replace All button

Cheers,

guy038