Remove everything before string in Notepad++

Question

I would like to remove everything before a string 'EXEC'. How to do that in Notepad++?

There are many examples with regular expressions and special characters but my sentence has two EXEC so none of them solved my problem. I want to ignore EXECUTION and remove everything before EXEC.

Example:

Abcdefghijklmn EXECUTION EXEC myfilename here

Expected Result:

EXEC myfilename here

Answer 1

Try this Regex:

^.*(?=EXEC\s)

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Explanation:

• ^ - Start of the String
• .* - 0+ occurrences of any character which is not a newline character
• (?=EXEC\s) - Positive lookahead which returns the position which is immediately followed by EXEC(with a space)

OUTPUT:

Before replacing:

After replacing: