I need to delete anything before ANY number, AND the number in a line

[greg greg]

I need to make this:

Cobrança recebida - fatura nr. 183893434 JOÃO FLORES
Taxa de boleto - fatura nr. 183893434 JOÃO FLORES
Desconto na tarifa - fatura nr. 183893434 JOÃO FLORES
Cobrança recebida - fatura nr. 184029355 JOÃO FLORES
Taxa do Pix - fatura nr. 184029355 JOÃO FLORES
Desconto na tarifa - fatura nr. 184029355 JOÃO FLORES
Cobrança recebida - fatura nr. 184569951 Proredes Int C E Servicos De Inf
Transação via Pix com chave para PRO INT SER DE INF
Cobrança recebida - fatura nr. 185197278 RUDNALDO FERNANDES DIAS DA SILVA
Taxa de boleto - fatura nr. 185197278 RUDNALDO FERNANDES DIAS DA SILVA
Desconto na tarifa - fatura nr. 185197278 RUDNALDO FERNANDES DIAS DA SILVA

Becoming this:

JOÃO FLORES
JOÃO FLORES
JOÃO FLORES
JOÃO FLORES
JOÃO FLORES
JOÃO FLORES
Proredes Int C E Servicos De Inf
PRO INT SER DE INF
RUDNALDO FERNANDES DIAS DA SILVA
RUDNALDO FERNANDES DIAS DA SILVA
RUDNALDO FERNANDES DIAS DA SILVA

I guess if I manage to remove everything before numbers in a line AND remove the numbers aswell, it will solve 99,99% of my problem. For every 1000 lines there only one wont have that pattern with the numbers. This one will get highlighted in the dynamic sheet mounted with these data in a Google Sheet. I can fix that black sheep manually easypeasy.

[guy038]

Hello, @greg-greg and All,

Seemingly, you would like to delete from beginning of any line till the string fatura nr. followed with a number and a space character !

However, in the line Transação via Pix com chave para PRO INT SER DE INF, the string fatura nr. does not occur. In that case, I supposed that you wanted to delete from beginning of line till the word para. Not totally sure about that !

Thus, use the regex S/R :

SEARCH (?-is)^.+ fatura nr\. \d+ (.+)|^.+ para (.+)

REPLACE \1\2

Best Regards

guy038

[Terry R]

@greg-greg said in I need to delete anything before ANY number, AND the number in a line:

I guess if I manage to remove everything before numbers in a line AND remove the numbers aswell, it will solve 99,99% of my problem.

As your request was really only to solve the 99.99% of the problem and you didn’t elaborate on the lines without numbers, I figured on solving your request in a different way to @guy038. I also think mine will help with the remaining 0.01% as well.

1. Mark all lines that have no numbers in them at all, this was what you stated those 0.01% of lines do have in common. The regex to use (in the Mark function) is (?-s)^[^\d]+$ and click “bookmark line” so those lines will be marked with a blue sphere in the left margin. These lines won’t be changed by step #2 so need checking afterwards in step #3.
2. To remove the portion of each line with a number run this regex on the whole document. Find What: (?-s).+\d+\s, Replace field to be empty. Click Replace all and that will remove all text up to and including the (single group of) numbers and a following space.
3. In step #1 you marked the lines without numbers. You can now move through those lines using F2 (forwards) and Shift-F2 (backwards) to complete the edits. The “marking” process makes it easier to find the remaining lines to be edited.

Terry

[greg greg]

@guy038 thanks for the reply, I ended up using the solution from Terry coz I tried it first and it worked just fine hehe

[greg greg]

@Terry-R thanks Terry, I didnt even bothered to do it all, I just searched for (?-s).+\d+\s and replaced with nothing. worked like a charm, no backfiring at all, not even those 0,01% I was expecting to have.