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    Replacing regular expression ^. with nothing deletes everything

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    • Anthony Blinco
      Anthony Blinco last edited by

      I should only delete the first character of every line but it deletes everything. Is there a setting or something that i have wrong here
      My search/replace criteria looks like this.
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      • Alan Kilborn
        Alan Kilborn @Anthony Blinco last edited by

        @Anthony-Blinco

        The “problem” with a regex such as yours is that after the deletion, the follow-on search again matches in the same place. It is an artifact of the way replacements are handled. One workaround is to somehow include the remainder of the line in the operation.

        Something like this:

        find: (?-s)^.(.*)
        repl: ${1}

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        • Anthony Blinco
          Anthony Blinco last edited by

          Awesome! Thnk you very much

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