How to: Remove text from the start or end of a line

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Step 1. Add Filters\Replace\Find EasyPattern.

To remove text from the start of the line

Let's say we want to remove 'aaa' from the start of each line, use search text of

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[lineStart]aaa

Replace with nothing. Note that literal text 'aaa' appears outside the [] EasyPattern brackets, but could also be written as:

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[lineStart, 'aaa' ]

To remove indentation (one or more white space characters at the start of the line), use

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[lineStart, longest 1+ tab or space or verticalTab ]

or

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[lineStart, longest 1+ whitespace ]

Replace with nothing.

To remove one or more > characters (like in an email reply), use

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[lineStart, longest 1+ space or tab or '>' ]

Replace with nothing.

To remove one or more numbers (e.g. line numbers), use

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[lineStart, longest 1+ digits ]

or

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[lineStart, longest 1+ digits or '.' or '$' ]

Replace with nothing.

Learning: [lineStart] is a position which matches the start of the line or the start of the file.
Literal text is included either inside the EasyPattern brackets inside quotes, or outside the [] EasyPattern brackets.
If we have a repeat at the end of our match (e.g. 1+ spaces) then we must use the keyword longest to force EasyPatterns to find the longest match.

To remove text from the end of the line

Let's say we want to remove '###' from the end of each line, use search text of

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[lineEnd]###

Replace with nothing.

To remove one or more white space characters at the end of the line, use

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[ 1+ tab or space, lineEnd ]

or

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[ 1+ whitespace, lineEnd ]

Replace with nothing.

To remove one or more numbers (e.g. line numbers), use

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[ 1+ digits, lineEnd ]

or

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[ 1+ digits or '.' or '$', lineEnd ]

Replace with nothing.

Learning: [lineEnd] is a position which matches the end of the line or the end of the file.
We don't need the keyword longest here, because the pattern won't match until it find a lineEnd at the end.

See: http://www.datamystic.com/easypatterns_reference.html

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