how to delete text in notepad ++

Mert dirk

i have links like these:
localhost/wordpress/2012/03/09/drake-fire-hole/d54ce0c6154c4d64942db35ff98b327f.jpeg
localhost/wordpress/2014/07/04/dragon-ball-z/a34ce0c6377453fd36492d435983279.jpeg
localhost/wordpress/2018/08/02/sun-flower/fgrw43w54c4d6494324db3ff08b3327.jpeg

i want it to be: localhost/wordpress/2018/08/fgrw43w54c4d6494324db3ff08b3327.jpeg

how can i get this i tryd but cant figure it out i tryd some regex but cant get working

Hope someone can help me with this! many thanks

PeterJones

@Mert-dirk said in how to delete text in notepad ++:

how can i get this i tryd but cant figure it out i tryd some regex but cant get working

Why not share what you tried, so we can explain what went wrong, and show you how to figure out how to fix it, rather than just handing you an answer that you likely won’t understand?

But maybe I’m wrong, and the following will make perfect sense to you, and will cause you to immediately understand why your previous attempts didn’t work. (Doubtful, but maybe.)

FIND = (localhost/wordpress/\d{4}/\d{2}/).*?/(\w+\.jpeg)
REPLACE = $1$2
MODE = Regular Expression
REPLACE ALL

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Useful References

Mert dirk

@PeterJones thank you for your fast respond!. this is working! i dont understand regex so much i found some on the forum and google but all was not working, how can i learn this u have some tutorial somewhere i can use?

PeterJones

@Mert-dirk said in how to delete text in notepad ++:

how can i learn this u have some tutorial somewhere i can use?

Did you see my set of five links in the “Useful References”? Did you notice that one of them was a FAQ that explains where to find other regular expression documentation?

Mert dirk

@PeterJones i gonna check it out. sometimes i need this kind of stuff. many thanks to you for helping!

Mert dirk

@PeterJones and if i want for example

localhost/wordpress/fgrw43w54c4d6494324db3ff08b3327.jpeg

i do

FIND = (localhost/wordpress/\d{2}/\d{4}/).*?/(\w+.jpeg)
REPLACE = $1$2
MODE = Regular Expression
REPLACE ALL

then its not working do i miss something?

PeterJones

@Mert-dirk said in how to delete text in notepad ++:

then its not working do i miss something?

You didn’t understand the regex, and randomly changed it, so of course it won’t give you the right answer.

I will explain a few features of my regex that you apparently didn’t understand, and see if you can try to figure it out. I will link to each feature in the user manual so you can read more about it.

(...) – things in parentheses go into “capture groups”, in order. Since I had two sets of parentheses, that goes into group1 and group2, which are referenced in the replacement as $1 and $2.
\d – is a “single character match” for a “digit character”
\d{N} – the {N} is a “multiplying operator”, which makes this sequence match "N digit characters
.*? – “non-greedy” match “zero or more” of “any character”
\w+ – “one or more” “single character match(es) for a word character”

So, what your edited regex is doing is saying "look for (localhost/wordpress/ followed by two digits then a slash then four digits then a slash) and put it all into group#1, then search for anything in between ending with a /, then (one or more word characters, followed by .jpeg ‡) and put the second parenthetical into group 2.

With that, I hope you can figure out why your random edit didn’t work. And given that I told you what each section of the regex did, you should now know what to take out or move to get stuff out of the capture groups and into the in-between stuff, so that there is less in the replacement and thus, effectively, more is deleted.

‡: technically, it is any character followed by the literal .jpeg … but it will work for your purposes, unless you have other text that has some non-dot character before jpeg)

And no, you got your freebie: I am not going to just hand you the answer a second time without you putting in a little effort. (And swapping a 2 and a 4 is not putting in effort; that was obviously a random guess on your part. Random guessing is not “effort”.)

Mert dirk

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