Jerry,
You’re probably thinking of shell globbing syntax where `?` means
“one of any character”. In a regular expression, `.` means “one of
any character”.
This matches three characters at the beginning of a line:
```
^...
```
This means the same thing, but is a little more readable:
```
^.{3}
```
Hope this helps.
-sam
On 20 Mar 2019, at 7:56, Jerry Nilson wrote:
Hi,
Cannot figure out the easiest way to remove a certain number of
characters
at the beginning (or the end for that matter) of each line.
Prefix/Suffix
lines seems only working when it is the same characters, so guess I
should
use GREP, but cannot figure out the correct GREP syntax – just
adding as
many ? as characters I want to remove is apparently not valid ... .
Any
idea? (I know the syntax for removing characters within a certain
pattern,
but there are different characters after the last character I want to
remove.)
All the best,
Jerry
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