Hello Everyone! Thanks to your recommendations and help, I am now able to replace all lower case letters at the beginning of lines AND remove spaces at the beginning of lines!
Your help will save me a tremendous amount of time and tedium each week! "15 minutes invested one time (researching this in this forum), will save me 20 minutes thousands of times." Thanks again! I hope you're all able to see my thank you in this thread :-) On Friday, October 29, 2021 at 9:48:55 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > You replace the ^ + with ^\s+ which would handle both spaces and tabs if > there… ;) > > Wags ;) > WagsWorld > Hebrews 4:15 > Ph(primary) : 408-914-1341 <(408)%20914-1341> > Ph(secondary): 408-761-7391 <(408)%20761-7391> > On Oct 29, 2021, 04:03 -0700, Satomi Yoneki <[email protected]>, wrote: > > > I meant the number of the line, as in the numbers in the left hand column. > > Those numbers are Line Numbers. > > The lines typically look like this: "so, it was...." Or, " so, it > was...." Which is something else I'd like to have a Grep for: > removing spaces at the beginning of all lines. > > Please try this. > Find: "^ +", which will search for one or more space characters at the > beginning of each line. > Replace: "" (empty) > > If this does not delete spaces, maybe the text contains other invisible > characters. > You can select them and see what they are with Window > Palettes > > Character Inspecter. > > > -- > 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 here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: < > https://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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/95570f34-7dbe-f346-2bdf-86ed65dec6b8%40gmail.com > . > > -- 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 here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/72777678-eec2-4100-9072-104b74ce27d3n%40googlegroups.com.
