Hi Joe,

That was the first thing I tried, but it didn't work. Thanks for the 
suggestion!


On Friday, January 18, 2019 at 1:41:45 PM UTC-8, Joe Richardson wrote:
>
> Try ^(space)(space)(space) for grep search, where (space) is a space not 
> the words, and empty replace.
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 4:02 PM Cecily Walker <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> 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!
>>
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