string – Regex replace all except multiple matches to keep

I have a string like:

"This is some text.|Some more text.|Some other text.|Some different text."

What I want to achieve is to select all text which is not matched by these conditions:

1. From the beginning of the line select the first n characters.
2. After each | select the first n characters.

If I set n=10 I should get this selection:

"me text.|text.| text.|rent text."

Final target is to replace the selected text with nothing,
so that the left over is:

"This is so, Some more , Some other, Some diffe"

I already came so far to select the text I want to keep, but unfortunately I need to replace the not needed text.

I hope this is doable.

This is the current state of regex I have:

^(.{20})|(\|)(.{20})

It gives me the text itself (including the | )
and I haven´t managed to adopt what I found so far on my problem.