Delete rest of line starting with some character (how?)

[Gauvins]

I often want to delete extraneous characters surrounding the value of interest. Can this be done in one fell swoop? 

My current workflow is to find/replace with tabs; copy/paste in a spreadsheet; copy the central column

ex: typical line contains +some text of interest-that I want to extract

[do your magic: remove up to + / delete from -]

some text of interest

[Kerri Hicks]

If your description is comprehensive, you could try to find (with the grep switch turned on)

^(.*?)[+](.*?)[-](.*?)$

and replace with

\2

--Kerri

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[Sam Hathaway]

Find: ^.*\+(.*)-.*$
Replace: \1
Grep: on

[Christopher Stone]

On 09/04/2019, at 07:28, Gauvins <gauv...@gmail.com> wrote:

I often want to delete extraneous characters surrounding the value of interest. Can this be done in one fell swoop?

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Hey Gauvins,

Most likely.

Please provide one or more real-world examples.

Faux examples and descriptions generally fail to reveal nuances of of the task.

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Best Regards,

Chris