Notepad++ Find/Replace Wildcard problems

Question

Hopefully this is simple because I can't seem to figure it out.

I have a game that outputs a log with information I'd like to review, but it's bogged with tags.

<color=#9B9B9BFF>abndnd_b9o66v</color>.<color=#1EFF00FF>out_ys0a67</color>
<color=#9B9B9BFF>uknown_ospiw8</color>.<color=#1EFF00FF>p_vyuxzb</color>
<color=#9B9B9BFF>anonymous_yzgoqq</color>.<color=#1EFF00FF>pub_info_o1rotu</color>
<color=#9B9B9BFF>unidentified_t7stef</color>.<color=#1EFF00FF>out_gems04</color>
<color=#9B9B9BFF>abndnd_5vs06o</color>.<color=#1EFF00FF>public_7gshh2</color>
<color=#9B9B9BFF>anon_7kq2k4</color>.<color=#1EFF00FF>pub_wxn46t</color>
<color=#9B9B9BFF>anon_i83kkg</color>.<color=#1EFF00FF>info_ev39gs</color>

I can simply filter it by hand, but I know a regex may be able to help, I just can't seem to figure out the syntax correctly and how to trim the tags without tampering with the needed text

and my end result I'm trying to get is this:

abndnd_b9o66v.out_ys0a67
uknown_ospiw8.p_vyuxzb
anonymous_yzgoqq.pub_info_o1rotu
unidentified_t7stef.out_gems04
abndnd_5vs06o.public_7gshh2
anon_7kq2k4.pub_wxn46t
anon_i83kkg.info_ev39gs

Answer 1

Try this:

<color=.*?>(.*?)</color>\.<color=.*?>(.*?)</color>

Replace by this:

\1\.\2