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Asked: 2026-05-10T21:23:31+00:00

So I’ve got a big text file which looks like the following: <option value

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So I’ve got a big text file which looks like the following:

<option value value='1' >A <option value value='2' >B <option value value='3' >C <option value value='4' >D

It’s several hundred lines long and I really don’t want to do it manually. The expression that I’m trying to use is:

<option value='.{1,}' >

Which is working as intended when i run it through several online regular expression testers. I basically want to remove everything before A, B, C, etc. The issue is when I try to use that expression in Vim and Notepad++, it can’t seem to find anything.

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  1. Everything before the A, B, C, etc.

    That seems so simple I must be misinterpreting you. It’s just

    :%s/<.*>//
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