How would I delete the first 27 characters from every line Notepad++?

Question

I have a log file and I need to remove the first 27 characters off every line. You would have a line like this:

2011-09-25 01:25:29 [INFO] <Exazoro> wazup

But it needs to be like this:

<Exazoro> wazup

Answer 1

Use regular expression search, search for ^........................... and replace with (empty string).

^{Unfortunately, Notepad++ does not support repetition counts like ^.{27} — the SciTE regexp documentation applies here as well.}

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Alternatively, use rectangular multi-line selection (press Alt while selecting) to select these first 27 characters in every line, then press Delete or Backspace.

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Using Unix tools (e.g. Cygwin, UnxUtils) you can use cut -c28- or sed -E "s|^.{27}||" instead. At least, these are the Linux command line calls you'd use...