Notepad ++ Regex Ending With

Question

I want to remove all the lines until some terminating string. So something like this :

These
lines 
  || that can contain numbers 123 or characters like |*{
will be removed
But the following lines
will 
remain.

I want to obtain :

But the following lines
will 
remain.

I tried searching the regexp /removed$/ and replacing with an empty string, but it says 0 matches .

How can I do this?

Thanks for any help !

Answer 1

Make sure you check ". matches newline", and use .*removed\\.$ :

Notice that you need .* at the start to match everything up until the terminating string, and you have to escape the literal . at the end.

Also, Notepad++ doesn't want slashes around its regexes.

If you don't have the . at the end of your terminator, just remove the \\. from the regex.

To remove the trailing newline as well, you could use .*removed\\r?\\n? .