Prepend - to the first word of each line

[nir...@gmail.com]

I am not sure where I am going wrong. I would like to prepend a hyper to the first word of each line. I am have the "m" option selected(for each line), and am searching for the first non white space character.

The search only shows the first match, the first character of the first line ,but none subsequent.

Niran Sabanathan

[Mark Munz]

To understand what is happening here, let's break down the expression: ^(\w)

^ is anchored to the beginning of the line (option:m)

(\w) the first character to match is a word character after the anchor. So only line 1 matches, because the others have whitespace, then a word.

Instead, use something like this:

Find: ^(\s*)(\w)

Here we start at the beginning of the line (^) then allow for zero or more whitespace (\s*), capturing the result, finally capturing the first word character (\w)

Replace: $1-$2

We preserve any whitespace found, then insert our hyphen at the beginning of the word match.

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[nir...@gmail.com]

Thanks.