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I'm trying to remove lines that indicate page numbers from my document.

Rather than go through and manually remove each line, I wanted to do a find/replace with regex.

An example of an offending line is

Page 62

I'm not having much luck with the regex.

My regex is as follows

^Page [0-100]$

Scrolling to the bottom of the page, I can see that these lines end at Page 62 as per above, but this regex isn't finding any results.

Can someone tell me what I did wrong?

EDIT

I've just tried matching ^Page \d$ also with no results...

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  • Are you aware what ^ and $ means? Does the meaning apply to those lines? Commented May 3, 2013 at 12:04

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[0-100] is actually 0-1, 0, and 0, not 0-100. Therefore it will only match 0 or 1.

Try this regex:

^Page ([0-9][0-9])|(100)$

It will match Page, then two digits or 100.

If you don't care how big the page numbers can be, just use the "digit" escape sequence:

^Page \d+$
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Still no luck :/ normal if I want to replace /r/n, all I type into the search box is /r/n but that's using Notepad++'s Extended search, not the regex
found it thanks to blog.creativeitp.com/posts-and-articles/editors/… :)
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You could

^Page \d+\s*$

Page followed by 1 or more digit followed by any whitespace

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Your regex isn't valid. You can't match a number range that way. You have to check each digit.

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How about this?

^Page [[:digit:]]+$
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