stringregexp replace leading spaces of every line from edit control

hello world..

i am trying to remove the leading spaces for every line in an edit control...

i was going to cycle through each line using _GuilCtrlEdit_GetLine and remove the spaces using stringstripws

but i think this can probably done faster using stringregexp

i found this.. http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/157998-stringregexp-expression-help/but it doesnt seem to work when i replace the - with a $

its probably because the $ isnt being read as a literal character so i tried using chr(36) - still didnt work.

any ideas?

thanks in advance