Reg Ex wildcard help please

Thank you, but no.   The FIND string was yielding zero finds.   I do indeed have the RegEx box checked, and confined the search to the current doc only.

Thank you , Nancy.  I misunderstood what you were advising, and it worked great!

The only thing about finding that string and then manually editing one by one is that there are so many !

On a string like this, I need to FIND this pattern <a href="file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Article-final-draftdocx#_edn6" name="_ednref6">[6]</a>

And REPLACE it with replace it with just [6].   (only keep the red characters in the line above).

That's why I was thinking of RegEx originally.

Thank you, but my question has nothing to do with my C drive.   I certainly know how CTRL-F works. I'm asking for Reg Ex help.

I have a large html file with many strings in it like the ones I posted above, scattered through.   I need help with  Reg Ex search for this query:

Find every instance of a phrase beginning with <a href="file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Article-final-draftdocx# 

and

ending with ]</a>

Such a Reg Ex search will find all the lines I need to find, no matter what number is included in those lines.

<a href="file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Article-final-draftdocx#_edn6" name="_ednref6">[6]</a>

<a href="file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Article-final-draftdocx#_edn22 name="_ednref22">[22]</a>

<a href="file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Article-final-draftdocx#_edn437 name="_ednref437">[437]</a>

etc etc etc

To perform a search of your current document or your entire current local site, use Ctrl + Shift + F (Find).  See screenshot.  Hit Find All.   Your Results Panel will show a list.  Double click each item in the list to open the code.

You understand that any and all references to file:///C:/Users/.... are pointing to files on your local hard drive that nobody can access except you.  Start by defining your local site folder.   Site > New Site >  enter the site folder name.  For example, C:\MyTestSite.

File > Save All.