I would just do a non-grep search for \n<space><space><space> and then 
replace all with \n.  (And like everyone else, <space> means type a space 
here.

-- Barbara

On Friday, January 18, 2019 at 1:02:53 PM UTC-8, Cecily Walker 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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