Advanced replace
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Hi guys,
I want to delete repeating text from every line but the text is slight different in each line.
For example, every new line starts with current time using this format: HH:mm:ss
so if for instance I have a log file and each line there was created every 1 second, it would look like this (for example):
09:15:00
09:15:01
09:15:02
…How do I use the replacement function to replace them all with white space at once ?
Thanks
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If I understand properly, you want to remove the hh:mm:ss from the beginning of the line.
With that assumption,
- FIND =
^\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\h* - REPLACE = (leave empty)
- Search Mode = regular expression
should do what you want: it takes
09:15:00 x 09:15:01 y 09:15:02 zand changes it to
x y zYou mentioned replacing with “white space”, so maybe you would want the REPLACE field to be one or more space charac ters. But your description wasn’t sufficient to be sure.
If this doesn’t do what you want, please clarify your question. Please note the suggestions below
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@PeterJones said in Advanced replace:
^\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\h*
That’s basically what I want, but sometimes it will be slight difference in the characters order in a specific line that I want to delete.
In simple words - sometimes the time (like 09:15:01) will be in the middle of a text line, not just in the beginning.
Here’s an actual example of what I want to do:
Take out those numbers next to the “Line” word, and additionally delete the date and time from each line.- I tried to use the syntax in FIND you suggested, unfortunately it didn’t work for me.
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@test-test-0 said,
@PeterJones said in Advanced replace:
^\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\h*
That’s basically what I want, but sometimes it will be slight difference in the characters order in a specific line that I want to delete.
In simple words - sometimes the time (like 09:15:01) will be in the middle of a text line, not just in the beginning.
Here’s an actual example of what I want to do:
Take out those numbers next to the “Line” word, and additionally delete the date and time from each line.When asking for search-and-replace help, context in regular expressions is everything. If you’re asking for help with regular expressions, you need to be as clear as possible. You said nothing about removing more than just the time.
- I tried to use the syntax in FIND you suggested, unfortunately it didn’t work for me.
Because the requirements you listed were different than the requirements you had.
You still haven’t followed my advice above – presenting before and after data as text (marked with the
</>button so it formats as unmodified text in the forum), so that we can copy/paste your text to experiment with – so we’ve still just got your verbal description of the problem as to what you want it to look like when it is done. So there’s a good chance that this second expression I give you won’t work either, because you have not defined your problem to us sufficiently.I am going to assume you want to convert
Line NUMBER: DATE TIME TEXT TO KEEP(where DATE and TIME match theYYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS,FFFformat that you implied this time around; I am just assuming that NUMBER will be an integer with at least one digit) intoLine: TEXT TO KEEP, but I will make the replace expression obvious enough that if you don’t want theLine:left in the final result, you can take it out.- FIND =
(?-s)Line\x20\d+:\x20\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\x20\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3}\x20- I used
\x20to indicate the space character, so that there was no question (especially at the end, where I want to delete the final space after the milliseconds as well)
- I used
- REPLACE =
Line:\x20- If you don’t want it prefixed with
Line:and a space, just leave the REPLACE empty
- If you don’t want it prefixed with
- Mode = Regular Expression
Here is an example it works with:
Before:
Line 8: 2020-05-12 12:02:03,789 INFO First Line Line 64: 2020-05-12 12:02:06,789 INFO Second Line Line 512: 2020-05-12 12:02:09,789 DATA Third Line Line 8192: 2020-05-12 12:02:13,789 STUFF Fourth Line Line 16384: 2020-05-12 12:02:16,789 INFO Fifth Line 32768: 2020-05-12 12:02:16,789 INFO Sixth Line 65536: 2020-05-12 12:02:16,789 INFO Seventh HeavenAfter:
Line: INFO First Line Line: INFO Second Line Line: DATA Third Line Line: STUFF Fourth Line Line: INFO Fifth Line: INFO Sixth Line: INFO Seventh HeavenIf you need changes compared to this, you will have to do a better job of showing that you want to help us help you. I have already explained how to do this in my first post.
