Help with Basic Regular Expression Search
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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
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You should describe your request more clearly, better give some examples. Then we’ll be easier to help you.
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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.
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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
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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.