Regex remove before colon notepad++

Question

So I want to remove all text before the colon ":" so example

d016eb66c977d646642d491ae8461134:12345asdf
90ef258293ee214d1128abecd7b96f99:61231afad

To be

12345asdf
61231afad

edit: I've already tried this ^[^:]*: but i ended up with only one line

This ^[^:]*: but it removed the lines so i ended with only 1 line — user2227874, May 13 '16 at 18:42
Possible duplicate of [Learning Regular Expressions](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4736/learning-regular-expressions) — Sayse, May 13 '16 at 19:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 13 '16 at 18:57

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Use the following with multiline mode enabled:

^[^:]+:

This must be replaced with an empty string, see a demo on regex101.com.

answered May 13 '16 at 18:57

Jan

Toto · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-14T10:56:37.623

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Instead of ^[^:]*:, use ^.+: because [^:] matches also newline.

Find what: ^.+:
Replace with: NOTHING

Don't check dot matches newline

Edit according to comment:

This will match the last occurrence of : within each line.

If you want to match the first occurrence of : use ^.+?:

edited May 14 '16 at 10:56

answered May 13 '16 at 18:59

Toto

This `^.+:` expression matches from the beginning of a line till the *last* occurrence of `:`. Use `^.*?:` or `^[^:\n]:` to remove up to the *first* `:`. – Wiktor Stribiżew May 13 '16 at 21:19
@WiktorStribiżew: You're right, but it is not said in question which `:` must be matched. – Toto May 14 '16 at 10:56

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered May 13 '16 at 18:47

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Use [^ ]*: (don't forget to add the space between ^ and ])

answered May 13 '16 at 18:47

Leo Aso

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Didnt work at all it selected the whole txt document – user2227874 May 13 '16 at 18:51

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