(REG)Express yourself

A lot of furniture in Second Life use notecards to save all the animations and their positions.
Most of them offer a “dump” (often at the Helper section), just so you can copy all the adjusted positions and paste them into the pos-notecard for saving.
That feature does throw them all in local chat, leaving you with a slightly dirty result, along with a nice leading timestamp.
For only a few animations that won’t be a problem. Since notecards can only hold a certain number of characters, you will have to clean up with larger lists.

Most of us don’t want to spend hours on manually removing the timestamp each line, so we’ll need the lazy approach: Regular Expressions, or REGEX!
In order to use this advanced format of searching, we only need a proper notepad program like Notepad++

If your furniture has spit out an endless scroll in the local chat, remember you can select the entire last line with your L Mouse Button (back to front), scroll to the very top, hold Shift and then click the beginning of the line. The whole section should be selected now. Copy it (CTRL+C).
Go to a new Notecard++ document and paste all the contents from your clipboard (CTRL+V).

At the first part “Find what:” you need to copy-paste the REGEX from below. Pick just one option, or modify the “no name” one with your objectname.

Option 1: For when your lines start with ex. “[10:24] ◆”

\[(0[0-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-3]):([0-5][0-9])\] \◆

Option 2: For when your lines start with ex. “[10:24] (no name): ◆”

\[(0[0-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-3]):([0-5][0-9])\] \(no name\): \◆

Next, you need to be sure the “Replace with:” is empty, since we want the timestamp to vanish.
At last, have “Wrap around” checked and select “Regular expression” at the bottom.

Now you can click the Find Next button to see if it finds your first entry. Once it selected the whole part you can click Replace
Once happy, or love living on the edge, click Replace All to simply do it for the whole document.

All that is left, is to copy all the entire document by selecting everything (CTRL+A) and copy it (CTRL+C).

Back to your Second Life, open the pos-notecard in the furniture and make it entirely empty.
Now you can simply paste your clipboard into it by pressing CTRL+V.

Save the notecard and let your furniture fiddle through it. Depending on the number of animations it may take a while.

Once it’s done you’ve magically washed off a lot of timestamps, fixed in a blink.
That leaves you with a lot of tea-and-biscuits minutes!

For those wanting to dive straight into Regular Expressions, try the online interactive tool too at RegExr.