I was just trying to use the Regular Expression option to Search and Replace fields of characters (with a random length) that are delimited with colons, and had some problems. For example:

random text:more random text:some more random text
more text:even more text:still more text

I wanted to remove the middle fields (between the colons) and replace them with a string. I tried many kinds of expressions but could not get the GWD editor to highlight more than a few characters. There doesn't seem to be a way to specify "any number of any characters", like a * wildcard would in DOS. Is there something I am missing?

I know I could write a script to do this, but in that time I can edit the file by hand. :-(

Thanks for any suggestions.

To match the all text between the first and last ':', (including the ':'s) use the following pattern
:.*:

But if you want to match only the contents between the first and second ':' (including the ':'s) use the following pattern
:[^:]*:

Remember to enable Regular Expressions in the Replace dialog box.