Faarbhurtz
Reputation: 580
Find replace, which wildcards to use
What wildcards do i make to remove this: " [21:11:48] Thijs: " and replace it to nothing. What I tried:
[**:**:**] Thijs:
and also [0-9]
Didn't work..
Upvotes: 0
Views: 39
Answers (1)
tenub
Reputation: 3446
\[[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}\] Thijs:
You needed to escape the brackets since they are a RegEx metacharacter. I also specified that there must be exactly two digits with {2}.
Upvotes: 1
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