Question

I need to replace a text string but I have no idea how should I do this.
Here is the text:

• “abaci – plural of “abacus”,a calculating device; a crown of a column
• abaco – one of the islands of the Bahamas abacs – plural of “abac”
• abada – an early name for the rhinoceros
• abade – an obsolete form of “abode”

etc…

What I want to achieve is :

• “abaci
• abaco
• abada
• abade” …

How to do this?

Answer 1

If you really want to use Notepad++ you should try to use regular expressions in it: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=Regular_Expressions

And I guess the search pattern would be ^([a-z]+).*$ and the replacement would most likely be \1.