How do i remove everything behind :

Question

I have a problem. In notepad++ When I to clear everything behind : in replacement, I did ^[^:]+: But the problem is that the format of lines is name1:name2:name3 And I would like to remove the name1: so I would just have name2:name3 Any ideas?

If you match `^[^:]+:` and replace with an empty string, the result is `name2:name3` See https://regex101.com/r/cysPNl/1 — The fourth bird, Aug 28 '20 at 12:33
I have more than 1 line of it when i do that it and click replace all it will also remove name2: — OKO, Aug 28 '20 at 12:34
Can you add a full example to the question and what the result should be? — The fourth bird, Aug 28 '20 at 12:37
my lines look like name1:name2:name3 So i want to remove the name1: — OKO, Aug 28 '20 at 12:39
You could check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37217137/regex-remove-before-colon-notepad or https://superuser.com/questions/1420401/notepad-delete-until-colon-for-every-line-with-replace-all — The fourth bird, Aug 28 '20 at 12:51

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 28 '20 at 13:33

It seems it's a bug :( in Npp, use the following:

Ctrl+H
Find what: ^[^:\r\n]+:(.+)$
Replace with: $1
CHECK Wrap around
CHECK Regular expression
UNCHECK . matches newline
Replace all

Explanation:

^               # beginning of line
  [^:\r\n]+     # 1 or more not colon or linebreak
  :             # a colon
  (.+)          # group 1, 1 or more any character but newline
$               # end of line

Replacement:

$1          # content of group 1

Screenshot (before):

Screenshot (after):

I experienced the same behavior (bug) on Notepad++ v7.5.8 and your solution works for me ++ — The fourth bird, Aug 28 '20 at 17:26

How do i remove everything behind :

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