Deleting ">" characters from e-mail

[Bernie]

I thought this would be easy to do with the "Replace" function in TextPad but I can't get it to work. Here is what I am tryig to do:

I have pasted an e-mail that has been forwarded several times into textpad. The text is contaminated with dozens of ">" characters. I want to remove these characters. What should I do?

[Andreas]

Replace
>
by
---nothing at all---
Switch off regex, then click on Replace all

[Randall McDougall]

Or maybe to be safer, with regex ON:

regex: ^[ >]*>

replace with nothing ... which makes sure it only gets leading ones
(note the space in the [] btw)...