Can I match the beginning of text in an Excel cell?

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I am trying to match the beginning of a text string in a cell, so that I can
replace a character only at the beginning and not anywhere else. I have done
this with regular expressesions, such as ^ in the past. Is this possible in
Excel?
 

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