How to extract random 2 words from middle of the each line in notepad++?

Question

i have few line like this

why is my airbrush not spraying paint why is painting so hard why does my ceiling look patchy after painting

I used to remove the first word using this function in notepad++

^\w+\s(.)
\1

with regular expression

but my question is , how to remove the last word from each line at notepad++?

Answer 1

Lets say you have your sentences in a text file line by line you'd go through following steps to remove the last word from each line at notepad++:

• Ctrl+H
• Find what: \s\w+$
• Replace with: NOTHING
• Check Wrap around
• Search mode: Regular expression
• Click on Replace All