RegExReplace to remove lines off the top

[robinson]

Hi, noob here.
How do you use RegExReplace to completely remove the first, say, 3 lines from a paragraph of text.
I tried this and it didn't work:

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:*?c:test:: {
	A_Clipboard:=("line 1`nline 2`nline 3`nline 4")
	A_Clipboard:=RegExReplace(A_Clipboard,"^.*$",,,3)
	Sleep(500)
	SendEvent("{LCtrl DOWN}{v DOWN}{v UP}{LCtrl UP}")         ; ^v
}

Another simple one probably, but I need a little help nonetheless.
Thanks!

[teadrinker]

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str := 'line 1`nline 2`nline 3`nline 4'
MsgBox str

lineCountToRemove := 3
MsgBox RegExReplace(str, '(\V*\R){' . lineCountToRemove . '}')

[robinson]

Thanks
but what if the first line doesn't have a vertical whitespace (\V) character before it?

[boiler]

but what if the first line doesn't have a vertical whitespace (\V) character before it?

The first line in the demo script doesn't have a vertical whitespace character before it, and it works (it would be strange if he posted a script where chosen case didn't even work), so why would you ask that? And \V doesn't mean vertical whitespace character. It means any character except a vertical whitespace character. You're confusing it with \v. And even if it did mean that, the * quantifier means zero or more of what precedes it.

[robinson]

Oh right, sorry I read it as \V.*\R