Need help for a Script Fix

[Conquest]

I have a paragraph style with a first line indent of 0.25 inches. My imported text has much wider indent and so I've run the script below in Find and Replace to remove the space before indent. Unfortunately it only removes some of the space but not all and I have to manually fix the indents. Does anyone know how to tweak this code or is there an alternate script?  Thank you!

^ +?(.)

[Steve Werner]

Moving to InDesign Scripting forum

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Surely not! … a simple Grep problem to be fixed!

"Script" doesn't systematically mean "Scripting"! Just need to read the question!

(^/)

[Conquest]

So how do I fix this?

[lfcorullon · Accepted solution]

Find ^(\s+)?(.)

Replace $2

[Conquest]

That worked!! Thank you!!

[Conquest]

Thanks again!

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Humm! Once again!

Of course, it will work but I'm absolutely and definitively not interested by this kind of Grep writing!

Find:  ^\h+

Replace by:  nothing

(^/)

[lfcorullon]

Or just ^\s+ replacing for nothing.

Oh, my God, Obi. You're a genius.

Oh, my God. I never seen anyone like you.

Never.

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

I'm glad you learned something today! 

… But anyone who knows a little Grep would have made the same comment! So, useless to be ironic!

(^/)

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

… And  ^\s+  is not equal to  ^\h+  really less greedy, especially useful if you take a look to the screenshot posted by Norman!

(^/) 

[lfcorullon]

Yes. Of course. Because of that you're a genius. You're the best of the

bests in grep and scripting.

But... Wow... Both works the same way.

But, look... I'm your fan. You're the best!!!

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

… Both works the same way.

Absolutely not!

(^/) [End of this thread for me!]

[lfcorullon]

Absolutely yes. Both deals with the extra spaces the post owner asked for.

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Test your 2 codes on Norman's screenshot text! …

[OFF!]

[lfcorullon]

The first one worked for him.

Finish. Off.

Not always the things needs to be complicated. In most cases, the simplest

ways works fine.

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Aha! Not sure it works correctly! …

As I already said: test!

I forgot! … You're wrong here too:

Re: Time formatting in indesign

(^/) [over!]

[lfcorullon]

I'm not wrong. I just didn't used the same format than you. If it works; it

works.

You're the most clever man in this entire universe. I forgot to say.

Thanks for "share" your knowledge with us in this forum without charging

for it (ops!).

There is any other place where you share your adorable way to solve grep

and scripting stuff?

[lfcorullon]

Did you?

[Conquest]

You are both genius in my book!

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Norman,

Could you post screenshots with the invisible chars?

(^/)

[Conquest]

Here's a screenshot

Thanks for your help with this.

[Conquest]

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Do you just wanna remove the spaces at the beginning of para?

(^/)

[Conquest]

I want it to have the 0.25 in. indent that's in my style. No extra spacing.