Replace Blank Lines with a text character?

Submitted by jroy on Thursday, 8 June, 2006 - 17:45

I have been searching the archives and cannot find an answer to my question. I want to know if I can search a file and find all blank lines and replace with a text character? Then I want to be able to search all files in a directory and do the same. Is there a specific plugin I can use? Anyone have a Macro? I cannot believe that this has not already come up Smiling

Thanks,

Jery

I cannot believe that this ha

by thinsoldier on Fri, 16/06/2006 - 01:52

I cannot believe that this has not already come up

Neither can I.

Hi Jery, it is possible wi

by CapM on Fri, 09/06/2006 - 09:33

Hi Jery, it is possible without a plugin:

Hit ctrl + f to open the search dialog.
Check "[x] Keep Dialog" and "[x] Regular Expressions".
Fill the Fields: "Search for:" is "^$" and "Replace with: (o) Text" is "j".
Select "(o) Directory:" and fill the fields depending on you needs.
Hit "Replace all"

This will replace all blank lines with the letter "j".

by thinsoldier on Fri, 16/06/2006 - 01:51

thats not what I need tho

I need to replace all blank lines with 'nothingness'
thus deleting all blank lines

other times I need to replace any 3 blank lines back to back with just one blank line.

How do I do that?

regular expressions are your friend

by paulflory on Sat, 17/06/2006 - 03:14

use Find/Replace to replace all blank lines:

Find: ^\s*\n
Replace:

Note: do not type anything into the Replace field, and make sure you are using the regex option. All "empty looking" lines (i.e., 0 or more whitespace chars) ending with a newline char will be "zapped".

For reference, check out this fine book: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/

or any decent website that explains regex, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

-Paul

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