How to remove the last character on every line in Notepad++?

Solution 1:

If every line is going to consist of exactly two | characters in that format, I should think this regex find-and-replace will do it.

Find all:

^([^|]*)\|([^|]*)\|$

Replace all with:

\1=\2

Solution 2:

Notepad++ supports extended and regular expression search and replace. Using the extended search and replace you could do this in two passes.

In the first pass replace the trailing | by searching for |\r and replacing with \r:

In the second pass we replace the middle | by doing a normal search and replace.

This of course assumes that your line ends are \r\n.

Solution 3:

You can use a regular expression at the replace dialog.

Find:

.{1}$

Replace with nothing Then just select Replace All

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