another search and insert(=delete) problem

[Krokodils Freundin]

actually i am completely stumped - maybe someone can help me…

Using search and insert i want to replace (therefore delete) any entries in a text looking like that:

[1 Kekse]
[22 Kekse]

Can somebody please help? Thanks.

[PeterJones]

It would be nice if you showed what you tried, or at least what your thought process was: “If I were doing this manually, here are the explicit pieces I would look for to determine whether something was a match or not”. For example, I see that and I say "I want to delete lines that start with a bracket, then has one or more digits, a space, the exact text “Kekse”, end bracket, and end of line.

I then convert that to regex syntax.

Given the data:

header
[1 Kekse]
[1 something else]
random text
[22 Kekse]
footer

with FIND = “\[\d+ Kekse\](\R|\Z)” and REPLACE = “” (empty), I get

header
[1 something else]
random text
footer

which would, I believe, match your limited description.

(I have tried to be more helpful and less preachy this time. However, if you are going to have more regex questions, I highly recommend trying to learn a little of the regex syntax yourself. It’s useful for more than programmers, as you can see. At some point, I have a feeling that asking for freebies will stop working for you: first in this forum, then in the next forum you try, and so on.)

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[Krokodils Freundin]

thank you very much.