If it’s exactly three, Have you tried a carat (^) followed by three spaces as your regex:
‘^ ' to find, and an empty box for the replace? If it’s an arbitrary number of spaces, try the carat, a space, and a + to indicate any number of the same character? ‘^ +’ Note that you don’t include the ‘ characters. I added those so that you can SEE the spaces. ;) > On Jan 18, 2019, at 3:45 PM, Cecily Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm really struggling with Grep and trying to write a pattern that deletes 3 > spaces at the beginning of each line. I have the text of a recipe file that > was formerly a numbered list (HTML). When I copied the text, it retained the > spaces. I'd like to remove the spaces at the beginning of every line. What is > the correct pattern to make this happen? > > Thanks for the help! > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or need technical support, please email > "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit > <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit>> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit > <https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit>. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
