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^[0-9]+[ \t]* I have used Textpad for separating numbers from words in lists of data in the past. Recently I reinstalled Textpad. Tried running a search string that has always worked beautifully in the past (since spring '07) but now I keep getting an error message, "Cannot find literal string: '^[0 ...

Thanks again Bob.

This is perfect. I am wondering if there is any general info tutorials on this forum that gives beginners a really good overview?


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Thank You Bob Hansen for the helpful feedback (and ben_joseph for the effective search string) I finally realize why I kept getting an error message - "Cannot find regular expression: '^[0-9]+[ \y]*' ....... The data list I am using has a space in front of the number string on each line of data ...

Thanks Bob, but no go.
This procedure eliminates only the first set of numbers on the top line, with no other lines effected.
I tried highlighting and running the instructions, still no go.

Any other suggestions?

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Thanks. The only problem is I really have no proficiency with this app beyond using it as a temporary placement while moving data into and out of incompatible applications.
I place the formula where to generate the result?

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A few examples come to mind. A simple one might be using a search result from a keyword search that generates other phrases or expressions containing the original keyword. 3479 marine fish 3467 fish oil 3420 piranha fish 3415 angler fish 3382 fish finder 3183 fish restaurant 2989 game and fish 2891 ...

How do I use TextPad to edit a list of data consisting of numbers and words per line with, say, 150 line of data? The goal is to eliminate the spaces between words per line and delete any numbers appearing at the beginning of each line of data. There are no punctuations per line. More specifically ...