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    • lazarusrL Offline
      lazarusr
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      I would be really grateful if someone could help me with a regular expression issue.

      I want to find every line that starts ‘//’ (easy enough) and then delete the last character on that line, which will be a ‘}’.

      I have looked through the documentation and I can’t work out how to do it. What I assume that one has to do is output the whole line bar the last character, but I can’t work out how to do it.

      Any suggestion would be really appreciated.

      Many thanks

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      • Claudia FrankC Offline
        Claudia Frank @lazarusr
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        @lazarusr

        In regex ^ is the start and $ the end anchor.
        In per line mode (default mode in npp) you would search for

        ^(//.*)\}$
        

        you need to escape the } as this has also a special meaning in regex sytanx
        In replace you would use

        \1
        

        For more information see here.

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • lazarusrL Offline
          lazarusr @Claudia Frank
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          @Claudia-Frank Thanks. Sorted.

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