Solved Advanced text editing software

[quadrplax]

I have a large list in a text file (roughly 900 items) and I want to do a few things to the list. First, I want to remove everything after a space on each line, including the spaces themselves. Then, I want to remove every line that does not have the either of these formats:

• ***kAA**
• ***kA**

Where "k" is the actual letter "k", "A" represents a random lowercase letter, and "*" represents a random number. Does anyone know a good program/web tool I can use to accomplish this?

 

[Alejandro85]

The first thing is trivial, even something as rustic as the built-in notepad can handle this, with the search and replace function.
For the second point, I'm pretty sure that a regular expression search can do the trick, again with a search and replace. I don't know regular expressions myself but possibly that tool will fit that search. I use Notepad2 myself and it can do that, and Notepad++ is another very capable editor.

 

[gladson1976]

I would suggest Notepad++ or Editplus (Trial).
Both are very capable editors and are very good at what they do.

 

[quadrplax]

I downloaded Notepad++, but how do you type an unknown letter/number in find/replace? Also, I'm pretty sure you can't do the first one in Notepad because of the "and everything after" part.

EDIT: Just found an inefficient way to do part 1 with macros, so that one doesn't matter now
EDIT2: I figured out the wildcard character, closing topic