Reputation: 69

In Notepad++, removing any text not matching a certain string on each line?

I have something like:

oiuerer jeff oteaweawe
gnwaeeeee jeff nbbaweee
bbbadx  jeff nvxxawee

I would like to remove the text which is both before and after the word "jeff" so that each line is only "jeff". How can I do this with regex? Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Answers (2)

Reputation: 7525

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Replace using Notepad++ regex

Upvotes: 4

Reputation: 82589

Replace .*jeff.* with jeff?

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Upvotes: 4