Delete last words after : at the end of each line

Vinc Cser

Hello, i have a txt with 1000 lines each like this
happylion3872:PIFMYJD8:9kjrgmdsjf4vxlc1dkc791fsd7f878
and i want to replace all 1000 lines to only be this
happylion3872:PIFMYJD8

How do i do that? thanks for help in advance

PeterJones

@Vinc-Cser, welcome to the Notepad++ Community

You asked:

How do i do that? thanks for help in advance

Assuming you just want to delete the last colon and everything following,

find = :[^:]*$
replace = empty
mode = regular expression

PeterJones

@Vinc-Cser
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Vinc Cser

@PeterJones said:

@Vinc-Cser, welcome to the Notepad++ Community

You asked:

How do i do that? thanks for help in advance

Assuming you just want to delete the last colon and everything following,

find = :[^:]*$

replace = empty

mode = regular expression

worked, thanks

guy038

Hello @vinc-cser, @Peterjones, and All,

Peter, you beat me to it by a few minutes ;-)). I was thinking about these two solutions :

SEARCH (?-s)^(.+):.+

REPLACE \1

OR :

SEARCH :[^:\r\n]+$

REPLACE Leave EMPTY

Note that your solution :[^:]*$ does not work well when next line(s) does not contain any colon. For instance :

happylion3872:PIFMYJD8:9kjrgmdsjf4vxlc1dkc791fsd7f878
happylion3872:PIFMYJD8:9kjrgmdsjf4vxlc1dkc791fsd7f878
Some text
to see
the problem
happylion3872:PIFMYJD8:9kjrgmdsjf4vxlc1dkc791fsd7f878

So, to prevent grabbing multiple lines , use either :

My second solution :[^:\r\n]+$ , which does not accept End of line chars before an end of line
Your solution, slightly modified, :[^:]*?$ , which looks for the nearest “end of line” location !

@vinc-cser, beware that running twice, any of these regex S/R, would delete the part :PIFMYJD8, as well !

Best Regards

guy038