How to use replace regex in Komodo?

Question

I am trying to create a regex to find and replace (keep empty) different names in an txt file. I use Komodo, as it is part of the examen.

Here the text sample:

*Cassidy: What's your name again?
Chrissie Watkins: Chrissie!
Cassidy: Where are we going?
Chrissie: Swimming!
Cassidy: Slow up, slow down! I'm not drunk! Slow down! Wait I'm coming! I'm
coming! I'm definitely 
coming! Wait, slow up! I can swim -- just can't walk or dress myself.
Chrissie: Come on in the water!
Cassidy: Take it easy. Take it easy.
Chrissie: Oh! God help me! God! Argh! God help!
Cassidy: I'm coming... I'm coming.
Chrissie: It hurts! It hurts! Oh my god! God help me! God please help!
Martin Brody: How come the sun didn't use to shine in here.
Ellen Brody: We bought the house in the fall, this is summer.
Ellen: Somebody feed the dogs, huh?
Martin: Right.
Ellen: See the kids?
Martin: They must be in the backyard.
Ellen: In Amity, you say: yahd.

The text must be cleaned up, meaning all names at the beginning of each line must be deleted (replaced by nothing).

If I use this: \w.¨:

Also names in texts (not the person speaking) are gone / deleted.

Is it possible to use just one regular expression for cleaning up?

Answer 1

You may use

(?m)^\*?[A-Z][\w' -]*:\s*

See the regex demo

Details

• (?m) - re.M flag, it makes ^ match start of a line
• ^ - start of a line
• \*? - an optional * char
• [A-Z] - an uppercase letter
• [\w' -]* - 0 or more word chars, spaces, - or apostrophes
• : - a colon
• \s* - 0+ whitespaces.