Using regular expressions to do mass replace in Notepad++ and Vim

Question

So I\'ve got a big text file which looks like the following:

A
B


        

Answer 1

This will remove the option tag and just leave the letters in vim:

:%s/<option.*>//g

Answer 2

In notepad++

Search

(<option value="\w\w">)\w+">(.+)

Replace with

\1\2

Answer 3

Having the same problem (with jQuery " done..." strings), but only in Notepad++, I asked, received good friendly replies (that made me understand what I had missed), then spent the time to build a detailed step-by-step explanation, see Finding Line Beginning using Regular expression in Notepad++

Versailles, Tue 27 Apr 2010 22:53:25 +0200

Answer 4

In Notepad++ you don't need to use Regular Expressions for this.

Hold down alt to allow you to select a rectangle of text across multiple rows at once. Select the chunk you want to be rid of, and press delete.