First character only find and replace
Find and replace should have the ability to only "find/replace" items that are at the beginning of a text string. e.g. if there are 50 building labels on a map that all start with 0, and one wanted to remove all those zeros... There is currently no easy way to do that and "replace all." Or if one wanted to remove "the" from the beginning of every title but not when it's in the middle of a sentence... etc.
Jacob
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There are ways to workaround this with custom scripts, like this one:
https://github.com/shspage/illustrator-scripts#batchtexteditjsx
It allows to use any other text editor or a service to edit the text, and paste it back to the original text object.
The only downside it can’t handle mixed styling, but there are other scripts, paid ones, which can.
Anyway, the way to bring some next-level but accessible regex would be nice indeed.
