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#1 delete five character of the end of line

Posted by: Esgrimidor | Date: 2017-03-07 11:05 | IP: IP Logged

I have a txt file with many lines ending in different character of lenght 5

I wish to delete the five characters in each line

How can I do that ?

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#2 Re: delete five character of the end of line

Posted by: pspad | Date: 2017-03-07 11:25 | IP: IP Logged

Use regular expressions in Find/Replace dialog:

search: ^(.*).{5,5}$
replace: $1
[x]Regular expressions

$1 is substitution for first part in bracket
You search for anything of any length from the begin of line in the first part and last any chars from the end in the second part of expression
You will replace with the first part - line without last 5 chars

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#3 Re: delete five character of the end of line

Posted by: Stefan | Date: 2017-03-07 11:35 | IP: IP Logged

FROM:
123456789012345
12345678
TO:
1234567890
123

USE e.g.:
Search: (.+).....$
Replace: $1
[x]Regular expressions

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For Regular Expressions syntax see
gogogadgetscott.info

. any character in line
+ one or more
$ end of line
Subexpressions $1

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#4 Re: delete five character of the end of line

Posted by: Esgrimidor | Date: 2017-03-08 12:14 | IP: IP Logged

i will try and comment.

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