delete blank lines

ulopez · Post by **ulopez** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:54 pm

which regular expression I can use to eliminate blank lines before and after a text?

DV · Post by DV » Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:33 am

To delete blank lines in TextCrawler use the following regular expression-
^\r?\n?$
and replace with nothing.

Try it in the regex test first if you are not sure.

ubiet · Post by **ubiet** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:55 pm

thanks
but, if for example I has the following text:

"end if

ubiet · Post by **ubiet** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:03 pm

thanks
but, if I only need eliminate the blank lines that are before or after a specific text. how can I do it.

DV · Post by DV » Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:05 pm

Deleting after a specific text is something like-

regex: foo[\r\n]*
replace: foo\r\n

John · Post by **John** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:19 am

Hello! Thanks for this wonderful app! My question: how can i remove more than two empty lines?

Example:

abc
abc

abc
abc

to turn to

abc
abc

abc
abc

Thanks in advance

Fool4UAnyway · Post by **Fool4UAnyway** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:36 pm

Try something like:
^((\r\n?|\n))(\r\n?|\n)+$

Replace with:
$1

John · Post by **John** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:51 pm

thanks fool4uanyway. I tried ^\r\n^\r\n and it worked fine

Fool4UAnyway · Post by **Fool4UAnyway** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:38 pm

If you rerun the replacement, or just scan after the first pass, does it still find matches?