How can I use regular expressions in Textpad to remove anything, line by line, after specified characters?

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user1729506 picture user1729506 · Sep 17, 2013 · Viewed 18.3k times · Source

Suppose I have the following text in Textpad:

kwejkewrjl:ksajdlakj

e833ekjh:skdjkahak

2098e123809:ksjdkas

dkjwhfdkjqhio:skjddksjal

98a09asfdsaok:kwqjeo912ui

I would like to remove all characters from each line that occur after the colon. The new text should be:

kwejkewrjl:

e833ekjh:

2098e123809:

dkjwhfdkjqhio:

98a09asfdsaok:

Answer

Leptonator picture Leptonator · Sep 17, 2013

How about this?

Find:

:.*

Replace with:

:

Just did this in TextPad on one of my servers.

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