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    • Malte Mueller
      Malte Mueller last edited by

      Hello,
      I’m trying to find out how to Find & Replace a certain selection and take the next following character and include that into the selection so that I can replace it all by blank (delete).
      The practical example is:
      I have a log of about 50 messages, all of them start with a timestamp which is 15:2x. The log has captured an event that lasted for 9 minutes so I have 15:21, 15:22, 15:23 and so on. I would like to remove that prefix and find “15:2” + “x”, X being the next following character which in my case is 1-9. Tried extended mode with [1-9] but not sure if I’m doing it right.

      Appreciate the help :)

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      • Jim Dailey
        Jim Dailey last edited by

        In the Replace dialog enter into Find what:

        ^15:2.
        

        and in Replace with enter nothing at all (make sure there is nothing in this box).

        Select Regular expression as the Search mode.

        This will delete “15:2” and the next character of every line (or selected line, depending on what you want to do), as long as the “15:2” is the very first thing on the line (the “^” in the Find what box means at the very beginning of the line).

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        • Malte Mueller
          Malte Mueller last edited by

          Yes, that works just fine. Thanks a lot ☺

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