Notepad++ wildcard

Question

how to find and replace all characters after the main domain (including the "/" character) using a wild card?

For example, i have the following 4 rows:

intersport-schaeftlmaier.de/
weymouthhondapowersports.com/Default.asp
rtbstream.com/click?data=RG1kUFJQQUYw
top-casino-sites.com/

In excel I would simply use the following: Find this /* Replace with this

The results will look like this:

intersport-schaeftlmaier.de
weymouthhondapowersports.com
rtbstream.com
top-casino-sites.com

So, how to do that with notepad++ ?

Thanks, Ziv

score 22 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 10 '16 at 07:50

In the Find and Replace dialog:

under Search Mode select Regular Expression
set Find What to /.*$
leave Replace With empty

This is replace any slash and all the text after it until the end of line with nothing. It uses a regular expression so it looks convoluted but it is well worth learning as regular expressions are insanely useful for lots of things.

Basically:

/ isn't a special character so it just matches a /
. is a wildcard that matches a single character. To match a literal . use \.
* is a wildcard that matches zero of more of the preceding character. So a* would match zero or more a and .* would match zero of more of any character.
$ matches the end of a line. To match a literal $ use \$

A few other special characters:

\ is the escape character - use it to turn special characters into normal characters. Yo match a literal \ use \\
+ is a wildcard that matches one of more of the preceding character. So a+ would match one or more a and .+ would match one of more of any character.
^ matches the start of a line. To match a literal ^ use \^
( and ) make a match group. To match literal ( or ) use $ and $

And there are more special characters including [, ], { and } along with others that I won't mention.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 10 '16 at 07:44

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Use Regular Expression in Replace and then use this:

/.*

Untick the . matches newline and ofc replace it with nothing ;)

answered Jun 10 '16 at 07:44

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 10 '16 at 07:44

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You may use (better regexp as Excel)

/.*

So:

answered Jun 10 '16 at 07:44

J. Chomel

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In my case I didn't need `/` I only typed `.*` for example I was searching for `script.*scr` in a document to find `` – Shayan May 03 '19 at 17:43

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 10 '16 at 07:44

Search -> Replace. In the Find what box, enter the following Regex:

/.*$

In the Replace with box, enter nothing. Make sure Search Mode is set to Regular expression. Then Find Next/Replace or Replace All as you see fit.

How it works:

/ matches /, ensuring we start from the / after the domain name.
.* matches any character any number of times.
$ anchors the match to the end of the line.

In summary, this regex looks for / followed by any number of characters, all the way to the end of the line.

Notepad++ wildcard

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