Delete word before and after Space

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I hope anyone has an solution for my problem.

I have a format likes this:

0500380 Thomas
0800251 Peter
0682006 Martin

I want two solutions:

First:

0500380 
0800251 
0682006

Delete everything after space

Second:

Thomas
Peter
Martin

Delete everything before space

Best Answer

Delete everything after space

Menu "Search" > "Replace" (or CtrlH)
Set "Find what" to ^(\w+) (\w+)$
Set "Replace with" to \1
Enable "Regular expression"

Delete everything before space

Menu "Search" > "Replace" (or CtrlH)
Set "Find what" to ^(\w+) (\w+)$
Set "Replace with" to \2
Enable "Regular expression"

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Related Solutions

Delete Text before and after a specific character in Notepad++

Here you go: Find and Replace (Ctrl + H)

Find: .*"(.*)".*

Replace: \1

You need to select "Regular expression" as Search Mode.

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Notepad++ How to delete everything before the first Colon

Ctrl+H
Find what: ^[^:]+ or ^[^:]+: if you want to remove also the colon
Replace with: LEAVE EMPTY
check Wrap around
check Regular expression
Replace all

Explanation:

^       : beginning of line
  [^:]+ : 1 or more any character that is not a colon
  :     : a colon (only if you want to remove it)

Result for given example:

:orange;mango
:cherry;peach
:apple;pear

OR

orange;mango
cherry;peach
apple;pear

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