InDesign: how to find all numbers followed by a period

Question

I have a list which consists of (goes up to 9):

 1.
 2.
 3.

And i want to make them:

1.
2.
3.

But, they all have a space before the number, I haven't found a regex to find all these occurrences, but not sure what to replace with:

 / [0-9]+\./gm

Answer 1

Use

• \s(\d\.) in the 'Find what' field. \s is the space and (\d\.) defines an expression made up of a digit and a full stop
• and $1 in the 'Change to' field. this removes the space and keeps the previously defined expression