Regex for Replacing everything after instance of a character

Question

I have a large quantity of data in the following format:-

EXPERTISE_JOBTITLECOOKIE = "JobTitleCookie";
EXPERTISE_POSITIONCOOKIE = "PositionCookie";
EXPERTISE_QUALIFICATIONSPROFESSIONALMEMBERSHIPSCOOKIE = "QualificationsProfessionalMembershipsCookie";
EXPERTISE_YEARSOFEXPERIENCECOOKIE = "YearsOfExperienceCookie";
EXPERTISE_ADDITIONALCOMMENTSCOOKIE = "AdditionalCommentsCookie";

I'm looking for some regex that could be used to replace all characters after the = characters, to leave only the variable name in capitals.

I tried:

^\*\d+$

but this isn't picked up. I'm also looking for regex for the same problem that works in Sublime Text 2.

Could someone explain what the above does, and what I might be looking for in a RegEx statement?

Thanks

Answer 1

Could someone explain what the ^\*\d+$ does

• ^ - Anchor that indicates the start of the line
• \* - The * character literally (since it's escaped)
• \d+ - One or more digits [0-9]
• $ - Anchor that indicates the end of the line

In other words, ^\*\d+$ will match a line such as *1 or *10000.

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You are looking for a regular expression to capture the characters until the = character:

^(.*?) =.*$

This will capture the characters before a space followed by the = character, and the match all of the remaining characters on that line so that they can be replaced.

If you want to remove everything after the capturing group, just replace with \1 as demonstrated by this example here.

If you want to modify the string after the = character, replace with \1 = "Some String", as demonstrated by this example here.

Answer 2

I'd do:

Type Ctrl+H

Find what: =.+$
Replace with: NOTHING

Type Replace all

Be sure you have checked Regular Expression but NOT . matches newline.

This will replace everything after = (included) by nothing.