I often receive lists to publish. When they come in, there are blank lines between each item. Adding markup is easy. It _should_ be easy to remove the blank lines, but I'm a klutz with regex. Can someone suggest an easy way to bet rid of the blank lines.
- Check "Regular Expression" - Find: \n+ - Replace: \n - "Replace All"
Or if you can't remember, copy 2 linefeeds into the Find field, 1 linefeed into the Replace field, and do "Replace All" until no more matches are found.
Gerd
PS: if there also is random space in the 'blank' lines, replace the "Find" expression with \n\s*\n
On Jun 22, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Lewy lewy@chena.fastmail.us wrote:
I often receive lists to publish. When they come in, there are blank lines between each item. Adding markup is easy. It _should_ be easy to remove the blank lines, but I'm a klutz with regex. Can someone suggest an easy way to bet rid of the blank lines.
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Lines with nothing but blank space will match
\n *\n
just record a macro where you find and replace that with \n
then play it in files you want to cleanse.
There are likely better solutions
t
On 22 Jun 2013, at 7:21 PM, Lewy lewy@chena.fastmail.us wrote:
I often receive lists to publish. When they come in, there are blank lines between each item. Adding markup is easy. It _should_ be easy to remove the blank lines, but I'm a klutz with regex. Can someone suggest an easy way to bet rid of the blank lines.
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