Matching line numbers

[SteveH]

Is there a nice, elegant regular expression that matches all the following line numbers. They all start as the first character on a new line and the one without the 'E have a space in front of them.

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 000000
     25
     30
    100
 500000
E700000
 999999

[ben_josephs]

Is this what you need?

Find what: ^( +|E)[0-9]+

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[SteveH]

It assumes you are using Posix regular expression syntax

Thanks Ben, that works great as always.

In this case it's something closer to PCRE.

[Bob Hansen]

Here is another solution also:

Search for: ^.{7}

[SteveH]

Thanks Bob. That would also match the first 7 characters of comments, which can also occupy the same space as statement numbers. I didn't say that though, so your suggestion would work on the example I provided.