[Geany] Regex replace weirdness

[Colomban Wendling]

Le 29/09/2010 03:16, Lex Trotman a écrit :
> On 29 September 2010 11:09, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 29 September 2010 10:30, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+tools at mega-nerd.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've got a file of C code which for part of the file has an extra
>>> single space indent on the left hand side. To fix this I'm trying
>>> to do a regex search for "^ " and replace it with "" (ie empty
>>> string). Unfortunately, this search/replace removes all space
>>> indentation which is not really what I expect.
>>>
>>> Any clues on getting this right? Is this a bug?
> 
> Actually having a bit of a think, it can't work since after replacing
> the first space with nothing it will find another space at the same
> place and remove it until it removes all the spaces at the start of
> the line before moving on to the next.
> 
> So its working right, just not what you want :-) & I'm not sure how to do it.
not sure it is "right" -- it already matched ^, so why match it again?
-- but it's at least not really surprising.
And it's really easy to work around, simply match the whole line:
^ (.*)$
and replace it with the captured data
\1
and you're done :)

Regards,
Colomban