I found the right Grep to remove a space before a line of words: " *(^)([ 
])* " 
" [ ] " means a space. The square bracket defines a character class, which 
means it matches any character inside the brackets. In this case, there is 
only one character, a space, so it matches a space.
Other solutions also removed blank lines, which was not the intention.
Thank you all for your kind help!

Best regards from Otto

Op maandag 29 juli 2024 om 15:00:02 UTC+2 schreef Otto Munters:

> Hi Ulrich
> Thank you for your reply. This Grep also removes the empty lines. How can 
> I avoid that?
> Here is an example:
>
> 166
> 00:09:51,690 --> 00:09:55,510
> And then this entire thing is
> nothing but wood, right?
>
> 167
> 00:09:55,530 --> 00:09:58,150
> It's just like, but then I look
>  over there and I salute Otto,
>
> So I only want to remove the whitespace in the beginning of  the last line 
> of the example. And not the blank line between the two text blocks.
> Thank you for your attention.
>
> Regards from Otto
> Op vrijdag 26 juli 2024 om 16:17:13 UTC+2 schreef Ulrich Kapp:
>
>> Hi Otto,
>>
>> use Grep option in search and
>>
>> (^)(\W)(.*$)
>>
>>
>> as search pattern and
>>
>> \1\3
>>
>> as replacement pattern
>>
>> That will help.
>>
>> Otherwise it will help to play around with the *Pattern Playground* in 
>> BBEdit to find a solution.
>>
>> Best wishes, Ulrich
>> Otto Munters schrieb am Freitag, 26. Juli 2024 um 13:39:05 UTC+2:
>>
>>> Hi BB friends
>>> How do I remove a empty space before a sentence with words?
>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>>
>>>

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