Remove last 5 characters from lines in text file?
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Hi everyone,
I would like to get Notepad++ to remove the last 5 lines from a text file I have. I want to turn this
10 Cloverfield Lane 2016
12 Angry Men 1957into this
10 Cloverfield Lane
12 Angry MenI have Googled but I’m stuck. Thanks for any help.
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@drghty said in Remove last 5 characters from lines in text file?:
Hi everyone,
I would like to get Notepad++ to remove the last 5 lines from a text file I have.Make sure caret is at start of file, or at or before first line you want to be affected, or enable
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Search Mode =Regular expressionFIND:
.{5}$
REPLACE: [empty].{5}matches any five characters
$matches the end of the line -
@M-Andre-Z-Eckenrode
Slightly off, because you need to make sure that.doesn’t match newline.
Correct find/replace is
FIND:(?-s).{5}$((?-s)turns OFF. matches newline)
REPLACE: [empty] -
By the way, you wrote “remove the last 5 lines from a text file”, but your example indicates removal of the last 5 characters from each line, so I assume the latter was correct.
Ah, yes — my bad, and thanks much for the correction.
For @drghty , just to make sure you understand why Mark’s correction is potentially important, depending on the total content of your text file, my FIND pattern
.{5}$would also match up to five consecutive newline sequences, if your file has multiple consecutive newlines, if it does not include(?-s), or you don’t have. matches newlinedisabled.
