In NotePad++, I want to remove everything after the third : character in a line.
So, the character would look like:
text:moretext:evenmoretext
How would I get rid of the evenmoretext?
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1use regex to search and replace – Shekhar Oct 7 '13 at 19:16
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The text isn't the same every line. – Layne Oct 7 '13 at 19:19
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1check this post: superuser.com/questions/339601/… – Shekhar Oct 7 '13 at 19:21
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1superuser.com/questions/323258/… – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 Oct 7 '13 at 19:31
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1Remove everything after the second ":"? – Axel Kemper Oct 7 '13 at 19:35
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You can easily do so using Regexp search and replace
The regex to use is (put this into the Find what field on the Replace tab in the search window)
^([^:]*):([^:]*):.*$
And into Replace with enter
\1:\2
(if you need the ending : too, add it to the end of the Replace with string)
TL;DR
What does this all do?
This matches the beginning of the line:
^
This tells it to match a group, that consists of "everything that is not a : character"
([^:]*)
The literal : is matched by itself
And in the end, this matches "everything until the end of the line"
.*$
(the $ matches the "end of the line")
And the replacement means "put in the first group matched, followed by a :, and then the secound group matched".
