I just started learning regex and couldn’t find a way to make this happen, even looked everywhere in the forum and haven’t found a clue.
If someone can help and explain me the reasoning behind it, I’ll appreciate it a lot, thank you.
I have the following:
martin123:123martin
scoprio8881:447juean
I want the following:
martin12:123martin
scoprio888:447juean
Thank you!
>Solution :
Search for (.*?).:(.*) and replace it with $1:$2
Here is it in regexr: https://regexr.com/6rr1g
In short – it looks for
- Anything, but non-greedy (so that it doesn’t consume the next part). Put this in the first group by putting it in parentheses
- A single character (the one that you don’t want)
- A colon
- The rest, also in a group
Now replace it with group 1, a colon, and finally group 2