notepad++ regex pattern to find the string

Question

I wanted to highlight/find string till '-' character

04,035 [1] INFO  - ascf
05,589 [1] INFO  - jtion
07,365 [1] INFO  - dbi
09,563 [1] INFO  - braho

what could be the regex pattern to find the string?

Answer 1

If you want to match everything up to the "-" character you could use:

^.*?-

Here is a great site for testing regexes:

https://regex101.com

Hope this helps. :-)