Le 29/09/2010 03:31, Lex Trotman a écrit : > On 29 September 2010 11:24, Colomban Wendling > <lists....@herbesfolles.org> wrote: >> Le 29/09/2010 03:16, Lex Trotman a écrit : >>> On 29 September 2010 11:09, Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 29 September 2010 10:30, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+to...@mega-nerd.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I've got a file of C code which for part of the file has an extra >>>>> single space indent on the left hand side. To fix this I'm trying >>>>> to do a regex search for "^ " and replace it with "" (ie empty >>>>> string). Unfortunately, this search/replace removes all space >>>>> indentation which is not really what I expect. >>>>> >>>>> Any clues on getting this right? Is this a bug? >>> >>> Actually having a bit of a think, it can't work since after replacing >>> the first space with nothing it will find another space at the same >>> place and remove it until it removes all the spaces at the start of >>> the line before moving on to the next. >>> >>> So its working right, just not what you want :-) & I'm not sure how to do >>> it. >> not sure it is "right" -- it already matched ^, so why match it again? > > Because it has removed the space it matched, the so its position is > back to the start of the line (which matches ^). Yes I agree it is a possible understanding of the thing, but I'm not sure it is "the one".
BTW sed behaves the way Erik wants: sed 's/^ //g' file will only remove the first spaces of every lines, even though the option g is present. Regards, Colomban _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list Geany@uvena.de http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany