Deleting part of file name

I want to rename files. At the moment they have names of the form +J01 #1+ and I want them to become of the form JH001. Example:
J01 #1 > JH001
J02 #1 > JH002
I can change the leading text, but don't know how to delete the trailing " #1". I have tried replacing " #1" with nothing, but Automator doesn't accept a blank in the Replace field.
Any suggestions?

Hi Guy,
Took some testing, but looks likes it would require 2 steps, 1st replace " #1" with ".", do it again and replace ".." with ".", (without the quotes of course.

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Old post, sorry, but for the sake of trying to answer it:
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http://texo.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/comparing-large-directories-fast-in-osx-or- linux/
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