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Find and replace n characters long random string in Notepad++ using wildcards/regex

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I have a SQL dump with expressions such as . The can also be a different random string. It is always 8 characters long. I want to replace with just . How can I do this without replacing it manually, one by one? The SQL dump is over 230000 lines long and has about 200 occurrences of these strings. I…

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Fix for: Find and replace n characters long random string in Notepad++ using wildcards/regex

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Please make sure you have a backup in case something goes wrong. In Notepad++ go to Search → Replace In the Find What textbox paste the following: In the Replace With textbox paste the following: Ensure that Search Mode is set to Regular expression …

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