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how to squeeze multiple blank lines to one?

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:08 am
by GottaRun
I have documents with one or more blank lines scattered.
How do I squeeze it to a only one blank line?

Thank you very much for the assist.

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:56 am
by ben_josephs
Do you mean you want each run of consecutive blank lines reduced to a single blank line?

If the blank lines are empty,
Find what: \n\n\n
Replace with: \n\n

[X] Regular expression

Replace All -- do this repeatedly until it beeps
If the blank lines may contain spaces and tabs, you have to use
Find what: \n[ \t]*\n[ \t]*\n

Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:22 pm
by GottaRun
cool. thank you.