Hi everybody!
I have a problem with a text file that I need to clean up.
My text file is like this:
ironia/ironia/S-FS  (/(/PU  lo/lo/PQMS  soprannomineranno/soprannominare/V-P3IF  "/"/PU  Pique/pique/SP  la/lo/RDFS  lune/luna/S-FP  "/"/PU  a/a/E  causa/causa/S-FS  della/di/E-FS  forma/forma/S-FS  del/di/E-MS  suo/suo/A-MS  naso/naso/S-MS
I have to remove everything that follows "-" so I can get:
ironia/ironia/S  (/(/PU  lo/lo/PQMS  soprannomineranno/soprannominare/V  "/"/PU  Pique/pique/SP  la/lo/RDFS  lune/luna/S  "/"/PU  a/a/E  causa/causa/S della/di/E  forma/forma/S  del/di/E  suo/suo/A naso/naso/S
I've tried this regex:
 s/-\w{2,}/ /;
but I don't know how to make ti work, beacuse this leaves everything the way it was.
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but I really don't know how to do that.
Thanks for you help

In reply to Deleting text from a file using regex by b_vulnerability

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