<![CDATA[Help with Basic Regular Expression Search]]>OK, folks, I’ve never used regular expressions before and it’s high time I started.

I’m trying to edit a large txt file that has text at the end of many lines that I want to completely remove. I was able to build a search expression to remove text (actually replace it with other text) at the beginning of the lines, but, removing the ending text is proving to be a bit more difficult. I’m sure there’s a way to do it via regexp but I’m not seeing it.

Each of the lines I want to edit has the same text in the middle of the line. I want to remove that text and the rest of the text all the way to the end of the line, preserving the CR/LF.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Colby

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/12838/help-with-basic-regular-expression-searchRSS for NodeTue, 15 Sep 2026 18:53:52 GMTFri, 02 Dec 2016 14:37:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Help with Basic Regular Expression Search on Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:29:30 GMT]]>@Marshall-Medoff

does this site have the equivalent of Karma or gold?

I’m not really sure how the reddit system works. The reputation here doesn’t really have much value, I think mostly just to weed out spam accounts.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19641https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19641Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:29:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Help with Basic Regular Expression Search on Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:09:33 GMT]]>So Dail, that worked! Thank you!

In the best Reddit practice, I upvoted your response, but, does this site have the equivalent of Karma or gold?

Best to you and yours!

Colby

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19639https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19639Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:09:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Help with Basic Regular Expression Search on Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:45:04 GMT]]>This is actually much more clear than most posts asking for regex help.

You can use a regex like: some text.*?$

The important part here is the .*?$ at the end which will match the text after “some text” all the way right up until it reaches the end of the line (which is what the $ represents).

Keep in mind that if your “some text” has special characters in it such as a period, parenthesis, etc then you will need to escape the character.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19638https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/19638Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:45:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Help with Basic Regular Expression Search on Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:29:25 GMT]]>You should describe your request more clearly, better give some examples. Then we’ll be easier to help you.

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