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regexnotepad++
user3704920
user3704920

Reputation: 615

Notepad++ Remove One Word Surrounded by a Sentence

sentence: WOMACK ARMY HOSPITAL null 2817 ~ Reilly ft Rd~ 28310

expected: WOMACK ARMY HOSPITAL null 2817 ~ Reilly~ 28310

word groups are separated by tabs.

I need to remove every word enclosed in between the tilde symbols (~) that contain 2 letters or less.

my current regex doesn't find it.

find what: ~[^ ]{1,2}~

replace with: nothing

This needs to work multi-line.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 261

Answers (1)

Wiktor Stribiżew
Wiktor Stribiżew

Reputation: 627087

You may use

(?:\G(?!^)|~)[^~\n]*?\K[^\n\w]*\b\w{1,2}\b(?=[^~\n]*~)

Replace with an empty string. See the regex demo online.

Note that I added \n to the negated character classes to make sure you only match within lines (without overflowing from one line to another).

Details

  • (?:\G(?!^)|~) - the end of the previous match or a tilde
  • [^~\n]*? - 0+ chars other than tilde and newline, as few as possible
  • \K - omit the text matched so far
  • [^\n\w]* - 0+ chars other than word and newline chars, as many as possible
  • \b\w{1,2}\b - 1 or 2 char words (replace \w with \pL to only match letters)
  • (?=[^~\n]*~) - there must be a tilde after 0+ chars other than tilde and newline (to make sure we have a closing ~ on the same line).

Notepad++ settings:

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Upvotes: 1

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