Re: replacing whitespace (regexp question)

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

q8e192@yahoo.com (Henry Chan) writes:

> How do I replace the whitespace at the beginning of a line with nothing
> i.e.
> I want to perform something like:
> $str =~ s#^\s+##;

First of all, you can replace the regexp ^\s-+ with nothing, using
query-replace-regexp.

Secondly, C-x h C-u - 999 C-x C-i might be useful, as well.  (If you
have lines starting with more than 999 spaces, it won't work.  But
I'm sure you can guess what to do in that case.)
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