Remove __ amount of characters?

[Graxeon]

I have this file and I want to remove the first few characters of it:

 

$file001 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=001");
$file002 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=002");
$file003 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=003");
$file004 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=004");
$file005 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=005");
$file006 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=006");
$file007 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=007");
$file008 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=008");
$file009 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=009");
$file0010 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0010");
$file0011 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0011");
$file0012 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0012");
$file0013 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0013");
$file0014 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0014");
$file0015 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0015");
$file0016 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0016");
$file0017 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0017");
$file0018 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0018");
$file0019 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0019");
$file0020 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0020");
$file0021 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0021");
$file0022 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0022");
$file0023 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0023");
$file0024 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0024");
$file0025 = array("http://site.com/file.php?url=0025");

 

So in the end I just want this left:

 

"http://site.com/file.php?url=001");
"http://site.com/file.php?url=002");
"http://site.com/file.php?url=003");
"http://site.com/file.php?url=004");
etc

 

I know Notepad++ has a "Replace" feature but it doesn't remove all of the changing numbers next to "$file"

 

Is there a PHP code or a tool that does this?

[mikesta707]

Notepad++ has a regex search mode you could probably use

[Alex]

Notepad++ actually supports Regular Expressions. If you press Ctrl + F then goto the replace tab you can check the box that says "Regular Expressions". Then search for: $[^"]* and replace it with nothing you'll be left with what you want.

[MadTechie]

untested phpcode

$contents = file_get_contents("file.txt");
$result = preg_replace('%^.*?("http://site\.com/file\.php\?url=\d+"\);$)%i', '\1', $contents);
file_put_contents($result,"file2.txt");

[Graxeon]

Wow...that works .

 

So can you explain the "$[^"]*" search method in Notepad++ for me please? I'm not clear on how that functions.

[MadTechie]

everything that's not a " with nothing

ie

$file001 = array(" <--until that quote

[Graxeon]

Ok, thank you very much.

 

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