Remove all text after a symbol per line

[roonyroo]

hi,
I was wondering how to remove all text after the character ; for everyline

Basically atm i have ie., sdfsfs; 1234c
asdasd; 987b


i need it to look like this sdsfs
asdasd

basically remove everything after ; for each line

thanks

[DataMystic Support]

Use a perl pattern search/replace
;[^\r\n]*?
Replace with nothing.

[roonyroo]

is it possible to state the word to end at across multiple lines?

start at ; & remove everything until all lines in between until it hits the word dog?

;cat dfgdgdgdg
dfgdfgdg
dfg
dfgdfg
dfg dog


so it ends up as

;dog

thnx

[DataMystic Support]

Very easy, use an EasyPattern search/replace:

Code: Select all

[ mustBeginWith( ';' ), 1+ characters, mustEndWith('dog' ) ]

Replace with nothing.