I have many PHP code files, where I have to find and replace/remove specific JSON key-value string from those PHP files with any text editors that support PCRE-Regex.
The string I have to find and remove (replace with nothing, not even space), that spans multiple lines (and indentation is 2 spaces but it could be 4 spaces too) looks like:
{
label: "Other",
value: "Other",
},
How can I remove first (n) occurrences of above string with PCRE-regex in Sublime Text editor/Notepad++ , such that it doesn't make any unexpected changes elsewhere in the file?
I am not so good with Regex on multiple occurrences and greedy-nongreedy matches, so any help is appreciated, though, I did try this one, but it didn't work:
(.*?):\"Other\",
For the example data, you might use
^{\R\h{2,}label:\h+"Other",\R\h{2,}value:\h+"Other",\R},
^{ Start of string and match {\R\h{2,} Match a newline, 2 or more horizontal whitespace charslabel:\h+"Other", Match label: 1+ horizontal whitespace chars and "Other,"\R\h{2,} Match a newline and 2 horizontal whitespace charsvalue:\h+"Other",\R}, Match an newline and },Replace with an empty string
If Other can be other values, you might use
^{\R\h{2,}label:\h+"[^"\\]*(?:\\.[^"\\]*)*",\R\h{2,}value:\h+"[^"\\]*(?:\\.[^"\\]*)*",\R},