Comma star matching incorrectly

[s7726]

Type the following into a blank document

Something, Something Else, Noting, more, less

Then ctrl-h to find replace use ,* as the find what and a single space character (’ ’ without the quotes) in the replace with box. Hit replace all.
You’ll end up with something like the following

S o m e t h i n g S o m e t h i n g E l s e N o t i n g m o r e l e s s

I’m ending up with spaces between every character. Even tried escaping the comma ,* but got the same result. Is this as designed? How do I get it too just replace successive commas with a space?

Sublime 3103

[jfcherng]

,+ should be used. You may go to find a regex tutorial like http://regexone.com/ .

[heyrm]

Seems to work fine for me with find replace my result is

Something Something Else Noting more less

not

S o m e t h i n g S o m e t h i n g E l s e N o t i n g m o r e l e s s

[fico]

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