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    • H3ker001H Offline
      H3ker001
      last edited by

      Dear community,

      how do i delete the whole text / character etc, except the things what stands between the square brackets?

      Example text:

      Lorem ipsum [dolor] sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit [amet]. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et [accusam] et justo duo dolores et [ea] rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

      Filtered as a result come out:

      dolor
      amet
      ea
      accusam

      Sorry for my bad english, im german.

      In German:

      Hallo liebe Community,

      wie mache ich mit Notepad++ mittels RegExp den ganzen Text/Zeichen etc löschen außer die Sachen was zwischen den eckigen klammer steht?

      Beispiel Text:

      Lorem ipsum [dolor] sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit [amet]. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et [accusam] et justo duo dolores et [ea] rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

      gefiltert soll als Ergebnis sowas rauskommen:

      dolor
      amet
      ea
      accusam

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      • moon6969M Offline
        moon6969
        last edited by

        Hi there.

        I figured out this much before my head started hurting:

        Find What: [^\[\]]*\[([^\]]+)\]
        Replace: \1\n

        It gives what you want but just leaves the last line intact:

        dolor
        amet
        accusam
        ea
        rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

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        • moon6969M Offline
          moon6969
          last edited by moon6969

          Couldn’t let it go…
          Find What: [^\[\]]*\[([^\]]+)\]|.*$
          Replace: \1\n

          Don’t forget to enable “Regular expression” - then click “Replace All”.

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          • H3ker001H Offline
            H3ker001
            last edited by

            @moon6969 said:

            \1\n

            this is amazing ! ! ! thank you =) ) )

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            • Claudia FrankC Offline
              Claudia Frank @moon6969
              last edited by

              @moon6969

              Hi, nice one but I guess there is little issue as you use

              [^\[\]]

              whereas, I believe, it should be

              [^\[]

              because otherwise a text like

              blabla] blabla [needed_text] blabala

              will break your logic.

              Cheers
              Claudia

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