Extract columns with notepad ++

frank kis

I have searched several websites, a solution in notepad but does not work, the previous solution of (? -s) ^. + ?: (. + ?:) (. + ?:) {2} (. +?) (: . *)? (? = \ R | \ z), it didn’t work, I’m not a specialist, I’m learning recently, can you help me?
My text is like this:

brian:Ryan@me.com:happy:2345:634fcc0a1193258a10867f671612386f:varchar(100)
michael:Kimberley@me.com:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0:PRIMARY_KEY
jason:Osian@yahoo.com:date:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0:

and I need the following result

Ryan@me.com:2345:634fcc0a1193258a10867f671612386f
Kimberley@me.com:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0
Osian@yahoo.com:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0

guy038

Hello, @frank-kis,

(? -s) ^. + ?: (. + ?:) (. + ?:) {2} (. +?) (: . *)? (? = \ R | \ z)

Quite weird ! As I immediately recognized the regex I gave in @toti-chalo’s post, some hours ago ! Are you the same person ?

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/49469

In that post, it is said

this is my example, but I always need the second and fifth column

Now, considering your very short present example, I tried to find out a general rule to build a correct regex, without any result :-((

If we suppose that we have a colon-delimited file, seemingly, you need, after replacement :

To get rid of the first field
To get rid of all fields after the MD5 field, with their 32 hexadecimal digits
To keep the second field

If we assume these first conditions, your text becomes :

Ryan@me.com:happy:2345:634fcc0a1193258a10867f671612386f
Kimberley@me.com:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0
Osian@yahoo.com:date:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0

But, which additional rule must I apply to get the text, below, what you expect to ?

Ryan@me.com:2345:634fcc0a1193258a10867f671612386f
Kimberley@me.com:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0
Osian@yahoo.com:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0

Could you, please, give us some more lines of text to study ?

See you later,

Best Regards

guy038

frank kis

@guy038
the text is

jason:Osian @ yahoo. com:date:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0:
1:sull @ insanelyi. com:1265737895:…:4:c806318233764c2da90b4930b0c6a591:'-9}
brian:Ryan @ me. com:happy:2345:634fcc0a1193258a10867f671612386f:varchar(100)
michael:berley @ me.com:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0:PRIMARY_KEY
3:mars @ hotmail. com:1265768566:3:470df90857bf8d00e0c157d88468f743:A2R3v
4:alex.s @ me. com:1265769583:Member:3:62d43f2f05ec755023b2ee1f371610d5:3f7;
77:carters @ hotmail. com:1265772833:Pira:14:b9a4d56584e3a72c8a5a2018d2d5b6a9:–rI3
56:hayden @ hotmail. com:1265778966:AppleAddict:14:17c185b1bdd907c9acf65ab8416b47e3:j^D5b

to

Osian @ yahoo. com:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0:
sull @ insanelyi. comc806318233764c2da90b4930b0c6a591
Ryan @ me. com:happy634fcc0a1193258a10867f671612386f
berley @ me.com:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0
mars @ hotmail. com:470df90857bf8d00e0c157d88468f743
alex.s @ me. com 62d43f2f05ec755023b2ee1f371610d5
carters @ hotmail. com b9a4d56584e3a72c8a5a2018d2d5b6a9
hayden @ hotmail. com:17c185b1bdd907c9acf65ab8416b47e3

frank kis

@guy038

excuse me, the emails are together, I put them apart because they didn’t allow me to reply,
mail: hash
thanks

guy038

Hi, @frank-kis, and All,

Personally, I did receive the input and output text in the same post !

Regarding the text you’re expecting, after replacement, sorry, but I’m still confused !

Why the 2nd, 6th and 7th lines do not contain any colon ?
- In the 2nd line, the colon, before the MD5 zone, is simply deleted
- In the 6th line, the colon, before the MD5 zone, is replaced with a space char
- In the 7th line, the colon, before the MD5 zone, is replaced with a space char

To my mind, if we add these missing colon : characters, the expected text would be more coherent :

Osian @ yahoo. com:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0:
sull @ insanelyi. com:c806318233764c2da90b4930b0c6a591
Ryan @ me. com:happy634fcc0a1193258a10867f671612386f
berley @ me.com:096cd42539bc9d5dae70eb76275052e0
mars @ hotmail. com:470df90857bf8d00e0c157d88468f743
alex.s @ me. com:62d43f2f05ec755023b2ee1f371610d5
carters @ hotmail. com:b9a4d56584e3a72c8a5a2018d2d5b6a9
hayden @ hotmail. com:17c185b1bdd907c9acf65ab8416b47e3

However, there’s still a problem. In the 3rd line, you want to keep the string happy. That is not logical, regarding all the other lines !?

So, can you shed some light on these points… Thanks !

Once we’ll get a coherent output text, build the appropriate regex, to move from input text to output text, is rather easy ;-))

BR

guy038

frank kis

@guy038

Ok my friend, I just wanted the email and the hash

2:alex.grig2@me.com:1283313747:2e0d7e0fcd9576ca19b17741c2ebc1bb:?G-N:ip
29:vs1ck@me.com:1283315003:e339e33ef20d66617d7d15418bd6526d:^v+[a:host
292:firspiderman@me.com:1283315546:9e6752c212d376b4293c40cfc0b3cbc5:+;kH
29:anthonym24@yahoo.com:1283316357:15710b20a3d5721c72ac036f5c5a84dd:tiNDi
222:ancientus@yahoo.com:1283317401:8cdc44024ee3bd4a73b2d01a49bfc8fe:0|7Eb
923:exp1iitc0nt3nt@me.com:1283318508:14:3498a32f4b749715570ad476604de347:.=@UK
24:alexobritsch@yahoo.com:1283318682:506c25f62848b25b256790b6855a57e8:oP&BG
29:akag205@yahoo.com:1283319044:9bf0cdb097138f8cab09a1d5264d9581:K&Gw+:89
296:miel1329@me.com:1283326032:3864f64adcd4525a4cdeb9bacb01562f:VbU84
27:lovk27@me.com:1283328454:2015214ea772a41d35e1d95a19af99f2:y16Oy
1928:jshver05@yahoo.com:1283330308:5236800df4ec5a3618f099ebbde1bd02:{x}l9
3929:beedy@yahoo.com:1283333359:117ab3567f6c4e41465ca3fb62fa8539:iB,)]
493:shihi@yahoo.com:1283333632:f7ccc1bb6ed6e2cbca6b59712754fdfb:NIZkC
293:yazaq@me.com:1283351855:ed92b485f1b9538de2fadb10ef2bb364:>U#m$
2942:lavarrell@me.com:1283352547:a47bd0cca19731fb8e8b520f7785726c:@^@$&
23:mm34@yahoo.com:1283377639:f049c0a3bf8ee64aae6f09c98bf5f3e0:]A%]}:dominio
293:mr_grumpy209@me.com:1283388146:29e253a3c746a51b80e3a4e08d18defb:G/V$|

guy038

Hi, @frank-kis, and All,

Apparently, you just gave me the input text without saying which text you expect to ! As you do not seem to make some efforts, on your own, to solve your problem, quickly, my reply will be the last one. Sorry ! I’m giving you a solution based upon my guess of what you need. Good luck for adapting my regex solution to your real needs !

So, assuming your last input text, below, opened in a Notepad++ tab :

2:alex.grig2@me.com:1283313747:2e0d7e0fcd9576ca19b17741c2ebc1bb:?G-N:ip
29:vs1ck@me.com:1283315003:e339e33ef20d66617d7d15418bd6526d:^v+[a:host
292:firspiderman@me.com:1283315546:9e6752c212d376b4293c40cfc0b3cbc5:+;kH
29:anthonym24@yahoo.com:1283316357:15710b20a3d5721c72ac036f5c5a84dd:tiNDi
222:ancientus@yahoo.com:1283317401:8cdc44024ee3bd4a73b2d01a49bfc8fe:0|7Eb
923:exp1iitc0nt3nt@me.com:1283318508:14:3498a32f4b749715570ad476604de347:.=@UK
24:alexobritsch@yahoo.com:1283318682:506c25f62848b25b256790b6855a57e8:oP&BG
29:akag205@yahoo.com:1283319044:9bf0cdb097138f8cab09a1d5264d9581:K&Gw+:89
296:miel1329@me.com:1283326032:3864f64adcd4525a4cdeb9bacb01562f:VbU84
27:lovk27@me.com:1283328454:2015214ea772a41d35e1d95a19af99f2:y16Oy
1928:jshver05@yahoo.com:1283330308:5236800df4ec5a3618f099ebbde1bd02:{x}l9
3929:beedy@yahoo.com:1283333359:117ab3567f6c4e41465ca3fb62fa8539:iB,)]
493:shihi@yahoo.com:1283333632:f7ccc1bb6ed6e2cbca6b59712754fdfb:NIZkC
293:yazaq@me.com:1283351855:ed92b485f1b9538de2fadb10ef2bb364:>U#m$
2942:lavarrell@me.com:1283352547:a47bd0cca19731fb8e8b520f7785726c:@^@$&
23:mm34@yahoo.com:1283377639:f049c0a3bf8ee64aae6f09c98bf5f3e0:]A%]}:dominio
293:mr_grumpy209@me.com:1283388146:29e253a3c746a51b80e3a4e08d18defb:G/V$|

Open the Replace dialoag ( Ctrl + H )
SEARCH (?-s)^.+?:(.+?:).*([[:xdigit:]]{32}).+
REPLACE \1\2
Tick the Wrap around option
Select the Regular expression search mode
Click once on the Replace All button

You should get, immediately, the text :

alex.grig2@me.com:2e0d7e0fcd9576ca19b17741c2ebc1bb
vs1ck@me.com:e339e33ef20d66617d7d15418bd6526d
firspiderman@me.com:9e6752c212d376b4293c40cfc0b3cbc5
anthonym24@yahoo.com:15710b20a3d5721c72ac036f5c5a84dd
ancientus@yahoo.com:8cdc44024ee3bd4a73b2d01a49bfc8fe
exp1iitc0nt3nt@me.com:3498a32f4b749715570ad476604de347
alexobritsch@yahoo.com:506c25f62848b25b256790b6855a57e8
akag205@yahoo.com:9bf0cdb097138f8cab09a1d5264d9581
miel1329@me.com:3864f64adcd4525a4cdeb9bacb01562f
lovk27@me.com:2015214ea772a41d35e1d95a19af99f2
jshver05@yahoo.com:5236800df4ec5a3618f099ebbde1bd02
beedy@yahoo.com:117ab3567f6c4e41465ca3fb62fa8539
shihi@yahoo.com:f7ccc1bb6ed6e2cbca6b59712754fdfb
yazaq@me.com:ed92b485f1b9538de2fadb10ef2bb364
lavarrell@me.com:a47bd0cca19731fb8e8b520f7785726c
mm34@yahoo.com:f049c0a3bf8ee64aae6f09c98bf5f3e0
mr_grumpy209@me.com:29e253a3c746a51b80e3a4e08d18defb

BR

guy038

frank kis

@guy038

I’m sorry for my English, I’m from Chile, I thank you very much for your help, for you what I needed was solved
You are a great person and teacher in notepad.
regards
Happy new year 2020