Need help deleting any text between other text

[Imgema]

The scenario is this: I have thousands of lines that look like this:

<Path>C:\random name\random name.zip<path>

And i need it to be

<Path>C:\random name.zip<path>

Basically i need to delete the duplicated name in every line because those files are not in subfolders of the same name anymore.

Thanks in advance!
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[PeterJones]

@Imgema,

FIND WHAT = \\(.*?)\\(\1)
REPLACE WITH = \\$1
SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression

Explanation
FIND:

• \\ is a literal backslash
• (.*?) says grab text and put it in group1
• \\ until it hits the next backslash
• (\1) says match the same text that was in group1

REPLACE:

• $1 refers to the contents of group1

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[Imgema]

Thank you!