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Hi,

I have an 80 column file. In Columns 10 through 20 I have numbers but some of them are aligned right and some of them are aligned left within the block marked 10 to 20. Is there a way to align all these numbers to the right within the block i.e. they all end in column 20?

Great product. Thanks for your help.

It depends on exactly how the lines are constrained. If each one is exactly 80 characters long, and if the 11 columns 10 to 20 contain a digit sequence surrounded by spaces, then this should do the trick:

Find what: ^(.{9})( *)([0-9]+)( *)(.{60})$
Replace with: \1\2\4\3\5

[X] Regular expression

Note how the beginning-of-line anchor (^) and end-of-line anchor ($), together with the 9-character prefix and 60-character suffix, fix the position of the 11-character line number field.

This assumes you are using POSIX regular expression syntax:

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