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Remove both the square brackets and their contents, as well as any occurrence of a comma or hyphen that follows the closed bracket in Notepad++

I am looking for a regex to use in Notepad++ for deleting all square brackets and their contents, as well as any occurrence of a comma or hyphen that follows the closed bracket. The regex should detect the following examples inside the text for removal:

[1]–[5]
[Alibaba], [7], [8]
[1-2]–[5]

I don't care about the spaces after comma and they can stay.

So far I could catch the brackets and their content by \[[^\]]*\].

Solution

  • You can extend your regex this way to capture following comma and hyphen:\[[^\]]*\](?:,|-)?