How to delete all lines except lines which have a colon in the 4th column in Notepad++?
- Ctrl+H
- Find what:
^[^:]{4,}.*\R? - Replace with:
LEAVE EMPTY - CHECK Wrap around
- CHECK Regular expression
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UNCHECK
. matches newline - Replace all
Explanation:
^ # beginning of line
[^:]{4,} # 4 or more any character that is not colon
.* # 0 or more any character
\R? # any kind of llinebreak, optional
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