Search & replace with wildcards and variable length strings in Notepad++

Question

I am trying to edit a series of strings in Notepad++ using search & replace. What I'd like to do is to search for a particular piece of HTML code, then delete a portion of it. The challenging part is that one word in the code segment varies.

For example, I'd like to find every instance of this:

/arama.php?shoes=bile 

(where "shoes" could be any word of varying length - sandals, boots, slippers, flipflops, etc.)

and replace it with just

/shoes=bile 

(where "shoes" is whatever the original word in that position of the string is).

Is this possible? Any ideas how?

Answer 1

you can use regex for this as others have suggested:

try something like

/arama.php\?([a-zA-Z]+)=([a-zA-Z]+)

replacement line would look something like

/\1=\2