How do I remove the last six characters of every line in Vim?

Question

I have the following characters being repeated at the end of every line:

^[[00m

How can I remove them from each line using the Vim editor?

When I give the command :%s/^[[00m//g, it doesn't work.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11409518/how-do-i-remove-the-last-six-characters-of-every-line-in-vim

Answer 1

You could use :%s/.{6}$// to literally delete 6 characters off the end of each line.

The : starts ex mode which lets you execute a command. % is a range that specifies that this command should operate on the whole file. The s stands for substitute and is followed by a pattern and replace string in the format s/pattern/replacement/. Our pattern in this case is .{6}$ which means match any character (.) exactly 6 times ({6}) followed by the end of the line ($) and replace it with our replacement string, which is nothing. Therefore, as I said above, this matches the last 6 characters of every line and replaces them with nothing.