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I am trying to replace all blanks in the 105th position with a zero but i am not doing something right.

Here is an example of a line i am working on. the 105th position is the blank in front of the 4. Right now the 4 gets replaced with a 0.

TROIS-RIVIERES SUBARU 4 02 D1


this is my find ...

thanks very much.

works like a charm.

you guys are great!

1,,19166100
2,,19179581
3,,fw127

the , represents a space.

the end result would look like this:

00119166100
00219179581
003fw127

hope this makes everything a bit more clear. sorry for the confusion.

thanks for the quick response

i have a file which looks like this:
1 19166100
2 19179581
3 FW127


i need to replace <character><space><space>
with <zero><zero><character> where the character can be any number
between one and 9. i know how to replace the blanks with zeros but i can't figure out how to keep the character ...

because i replaced the - with a # only on the lines that began with the codes i needed, i was then able to just use find and delete all once it had done the change.
i could not get the \1 not to leave a space. i am new to textpad so maybe i will figure it out eventually but i was running out of time ...

thanks for the quick and helpful responses.

this was my final solution.

i used find # (to make sure the symbol did not already exist in my data)
i used your find (^158.*)-
i changed the replace to: \1# (regular exp on and using replace all)
i repeated the replace all until the program responded ...

thanks very much for your reply.
the replace command of \1 replaces the - with a blank so my end result looks like:

158CB 125U

i need it to look like this:

158CB125U

any suggestions would be appreciated.

I am trying to find rows beginning with 158 and containing a -
The dash can be in different positions. Some rows may even contain more than one. The file contains rows that begin with codes other than 158 but do contain a dash. They should be ignored.
Once I find the row beginning with 158 and ...

Thanks

that's does the trick

i am trying to insert a "#" in front of any line that has "299" in the 63rd space of the row

i can find the lines using ^.{63}299
i can't grasp how to then tell textpad to insert a # at the beginning of the line without deleting any of the existing information.
i have looked through the forums but ...