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    • Donald PetersD
      Donald Peters
      last edited by

      I am a NotePad++ user for a only a few months. I was able to Find commas and Replace with nothing using the Find/Replace box last week. Now Replace will delete the comma but shift rest of data line 3 spaces to the right. Here is my line of data.
      15,00001,80287591,X,

      I could not copy and paste the Find/Replace box into here, but here are the main options:
      Find what: ,
      Replace with:
      Wrap around is checked.
      Search Mode is Normal.

      Here is my line of data after having Replaced the comma:
      15 00001,80287591,X,

      I want it to look like:
      1500001,80287591,X,

      Can anyone please help as I can not figure out what I may have done to cause this?

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      • Jim DaileyJ
        Jim Dailey
        last edited by

        Perhaps your “empty” replace with box contains some spaces?

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        • Donald PetersD
          Donald Peters
          last edited by

          Jim, That was it. Thank you much. Since I was replacing with nothing, I could not see the spaces and thought perhaps I had messed up some option. I am good to go.

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          • Jim DaileyJ
            Jim Dailey
            last edited by

            If you would kindly upvote my answer, I’ll be able to post more often than once every 20 minutes! Thanks.

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            • Donald PetersD
              Donald Peters
              last edited by

              Be glad to. How do you upvote?

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              • Donald PetersD
                Donald Peters
                last edited by

                I clicked on the ^ symbol and it changed the number by it from 0 to 1. I hope that was the correct way to upvote your answer. This is my first visit to this site and apologize for being such a novice.

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                • Jim DaileyJ
                  Jim Dailey
                  last edited by

                  That was it! Thanks, and welcome to the site.

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