How can I use regular expressions in Textpad to remove anything, line by line, after specified characters?

Question

Suppose I have the following text in Textpad:

kwejkewrjl:ksajdlakj

e833ekjh:skdjkahak

2098e123809:ksjdkas

dkjwhfdkjqhio:skjddksjal

98a09asfdsaok:kwqjeo912ui

I would like to remove all characters from each line that occur after the colon. The new text should be:

kwejkewrjl:

e833ekjh:

2098e123809:

dkjwhfdkjqhio:

98a09asfdsaok:

In notepad++ I would just find `:.*` and replace with `:`, make sure `regular expression` is checked and `. matches newline` is not checked. Perhaps textpad works similarly? — Smern, Sep 17 '13 at 19:43
finding `:[^\n\r]*` and replacing with `:` should be pretty fail-proof regardless of DOTALL. — Smern, Sep 17 '13 at 19:54

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 17 '13 at 20:06

5

How about this?

Find:

:.*

Replace with:

Just did this in TextPad on one of my servers.

edited Sep 17 '13 at 20:06

nhahtdh

answered Sep 17 '13 at 19:44

Leptonator

Most helpful of these types of questions I've seen thus far! I had to replace `,,XX/` pattern where `XX` could be any number, and this enabled me to figure out that `,,.*/` would do the trick. The brackets make it rather complicated when starting out with these... – gktscrk Jul 23 '20 at 16:23

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