Remove commas at start of line

alexgrainger · Post by **alexgrainger** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:01 pm

Hello,

How do I remove commas at the start of a line (and if there isn't one ignore it)?

Sample data is:

,56583,5,01027F32D7,16:42:36,24/06/20
,56582,5,0102EF1202,16:42:43,24/06/20
56580,5,0102EEF7D9,16:42:59,24/06/20
,56580,5,01027F21A2,16:43:03,24/06/20
56579,5,01027F21A2,16:43:07,24/06/20
,56578,5,2A35363537,16:43:15,24/06/20
,56577,5,01027F13C6,16:43:20,24/06/20
,56576,5,2A35363537,16:43:31,24/06/20
,56575,5,0102E22FF3,16:43:35,24/06/20
56575,5,2A35363537,16:43:46,24/06/20
,56574,5,2A35363537,16:43:57,24/06/20
,56574,5,01027F23EC,16:44:06,24/06/20
,56573,5,01027F23EC,16:44:09,24/06/20
,56572,5,0102EF168F,16:44:21,24/06/20

Thank you

new · Post by **new** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 7:34 am

optional puncuation or optional comma

Post by **DataMystic Support** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:15 pm

Yes, the EasyPattern search.replace

[ lineStart, ',' ]

will do it.