Notepad++ delete everything in line after certain character?

Question

I have seen and used many other tips and advice to help what I am doing. I'm not coding or anything, just working with normal text and messaging and I want to know how to delete everything in a line after the character I want which happens to be *. But I have almost everything with 2 * with words between that does not need to be deleted.

Example:

What I have

* Hello, how is everything * this is only a test

What I want to do

* Hello, how is everything *

I have multiple of these in my file with different things so wondering How do I delete everything after the second * in every line that has them?

Answer 1

For the specific example you gave you could use the Find/Replace window with a regex.

In the "Find what" box:

(.*\*.*\*).*

And in the "Replace with" box:

\1