Remove all but one word in a line - Notepad++

Question

I'm looking for a way to search for a specific string e.g. '@' and delete everything before and after that string. I would prefer a way/macro/addon for Notepad++ but anything would be helpful.

Here is the line now (Note that the numbers are always different per line so you couldn't do a search and replace with them):

Follow Follow @BararRohit User actions Rohit Barar @BararRohit

I want to be able to remove everything in the following line except one portion so that the end result looks like this:

@BararRohit

Answer 1

This is working for your example but you could edit your question to show other examples.

• Ctrl+H
• Find what: .*(@\w+).*
• Replace with: $1
• check Wrap around
• check Regular expression
• CHECK . matches newline
• Replace all

Explanation:

.*          # 0 or more any character
(           # start group 1
    @       # literally @
    \w+     # 1 or more word character (i.e. [a-zA-Z0-9_])
)           # end group 1
.*          # 0 or more any character

Replacement:

$1  # content of group 1

Result for given example:

@BararRohit