How to replace text starting with pattern?

Question

I have this text opened in notepad++ 7.5.2 text editor :

- Note 1 message={"one":1}]
- Note 5 message={"two":2}]
- Note 2 message={"three":3}]
- Note 7 message={"four":4}]

For each line, I want to keep only the text between the brackets starting and ending brackets { } and the bracket themselves. I tried a regex - Note.* message= in https://regex101.com/ and it works. I am able to find lines in matching the regex in notepad++. But, I am not able to replace them with nothing.

How do I do the replacement ?

@WiktorStribiżew - Thanks. I set "Find what" as ^- Note.* message=(.*)]$ and "Replace with" as $1. Notepad++ says 0 occurrences were replaced. I have selected the regex option in find. So, I don't know why this is not working. — MasterJoe
– MasterJoe, Commented Oct 29, 2019 at 23:09
@WiktorStribiżew - I selected all the text in my temp document and then tried the replace all. It works now. Thanks. Please add this as an answer. I can accept it. thanks — MasterJoe
– MasterJoe, Commented Oct 29, 2019 at 23:16

Wiktor Stribiżew · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-29 23:18:25Z

2

You may use

^- Note.* message=(.*)]$

Replace with $1. See the regex demo.

Details

^ - start of a line
- Note - - Note text
.* - any 0+ chars other than line break chars, as many as possible
message= - message= text
(.*) - Capturing group 1 ($1): any 0+ chars other than line break chars, as many as possible
] - a ] char
$ - end of a line.

Notepad++ demo and settings:

answered Oct 29, 2019 at 23:18

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