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Created November 20, 2013 17:05
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Regex Find and Replace First X Characters In Every Line: See expression in the gist. ^ is for beginning of line, and . is for 1 character.
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Regex Find and Replace First X Characters In Every Line
To replace the first 4 characters in every line, use the find Expression below.
^.{4}
If the Editor does not honor the {3} i.e. the Regex find fails, use actual number of . like the following
^....
Leave Replace Expression Blank
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