Help with removing a variable number using "find and replace"

Hey, I have to remove a variable number from a large number of documents.
How would I do this using "find and replace"
<text><![CDATA[Coloured 250]]></text>
250 is an example of the variable number that I will need to remove so it looks like this:
<text><![CDATA[Coloured]]></text>
Note: the text "coloured" is subject to change also.
Thanks

That's a possibilitly I'll explore. Thanks for the alternate perspective!
(5 minutes later)
Oh well, it was a good thought.
Unfortunately each line of raw original text may contain from 1 to 4 lines of final text. In other words there is no consistency in the number of backslashes (hard returns) in each line of original text, and thus, when backslashes are converted to commas, no consistency in the number of data elements in each data set.
Sadly PS variables will not handle finding a source text line that does not have data for 4 variables. So I either have to go back and add enough commas on each short line to make four individual data elements for each data set... or I simply deal with the hard returns within Photoshop.
I think I've reached the limit of automation on this process.

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