Hi Kaveh
Sorry about the delay in replying, had to go out.
I’m a bit confused as to how the 2 PLAC can be put back to correct line

Not every line in the file begins with 2 PLAC

Dave

On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 4:29:21 PM UTC+1 Kaveh Bazargan wrote:

> BTW to replace 
>
> 2 PLAC 
>
> at start of lines when replacements have been done, replace:
>
> "^" -- start of line
> with 
>
> "2 PLAC "
>
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 15:28, Kaveh Bazargan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Simplest might be first to remove all "2 PLAC "
>>
>> Then replace
>> "(?<!(?:[0-9]))" 
>> with
>> ", "
>>
>> So replace any space not preceded by a digit to a comma space. 
>>
>> Would that work?
>>
>> On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 15:19, Dave Simpson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Kaveh
>>>
>>> No problem, 3 examples of before and after
>>>
>>> 2 PLAC 129 Haymarket London England
>>> 2 PLAC 129 Haymarket, London, England    *[Ideal answer because space 
>>> between '129' and 'Haymarket' is skipped, but not essential]*
>>>
>>> 2 PLAC 24 Long Street Chester Cheshire
>>> 2 PLAC 24, Long, Street, Chester, Cheshire
>>>
>>> 2 PLAC Meadows, Lowestoft, England
>>> 2 PLAC Meadows Lowestoft England
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 2:48:07 PM UTC+1 Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Dave
>>>>
>>>> Could you give several examples of before, then the same ones after? 
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Kaveh
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 14:45, Dave Simpson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, I'm a novice at this sort of thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a line of text:-
>>>>> *2 PLAC 11 Haymarket Willenhall Staffordshire*
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to replace the spaces with ,  [comma space] after the first 
>>>>> part of the line [2 PLAC ]
>>>>>
>>>>> ^(2 PLAC ) finds me the start
>>>>> Now I want to replace the spaces with  comma space:-
>>>>>
>>>>> *2 PLAC 11, Haymarket, Willenhall, Staffordshire*
>>>>> [It would be brilliant if it were possible to skip the first space 
>>>>> between 11 and Haymarket]
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks for your help
>>>>>
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