Comments on microUgly's Vanity Site: Notepad++: Linebreaks in Regular Expressions

Thanks man, I really appreciate it

2011-03-30T12:48:34.185+10:00

Thanks man, I really appreciate it

Thanks for posting this. I feel pretty silly for n...

2010-12-01T08:53:10.171+10:00

Thanks for posting this. I feel pretty silly for not figuring it out myself, but this was a lifesaver.

I was trying to edit a csv and kill newlines that didn't end in commas:

Replace ([^,])\r\n
With \1

HAH off course after typing that I figured it out....

2010-02-28T09:16:36.000+10:00

HAH off course after typing that I figured it out.

FIRST I replace \r\n\r\n IE doubles with a combo NOT likely to appear "DOUBLEBREAK"

then I replace \r\n with nothing getting rid of them

and then replace DOUBLEBREAK with \r\n

Worked a treat! now to figure out a way to AUTOMATE this time to see of notepadd++ has any sort of scripting capacity. :-)

The problem I am having is the opposite. I want to...

2010-02-28T09:11:55.159+10:00

The problem I am having is the opposite. I want to go the OTHER WAY. I have "unwanted" line breaks. ie at the ends of sentences.

I want to get rid of those but KEEP the breaks between paragraphs.

Suggestions?

I need to remove SINGLE instances of carriage returns but LEAVE double instances of carriage returns intact IE remove line breaks between sentences but LEAVE them between paragraphs.