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Paul-M
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Jul 28, 2018 3:32 AM UTC
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Regex Find & Replace - Remove Empty Lines

Anyone got a tried and tested find and replace regex for removing empty lines in DW 2018 please?

This seems to find empty lines:

^(?:[\t ]*(?:\r?\n|\r))+

But if I leave the replace field empty and click replace all - nothing happens.

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B i r n o u
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Legend
Jul 28, 2018 3:37 PM UTC

the expression that you had enter so far is working good at least in many text editor but in dreamweaver

as you point at the [\r\n]{2,} replaced by \n can do the job, but will avoid lines starting by a TAB char... (it often happen in code text)... perhaps adding a \t starting the square bracket will help to catch them

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B i r n o u
B i r n o uCorrect answer
Legend
Jul 28, 2018 3:37 PM UTC

the expression that you had enter so far is working good at least in many text editor but in dreamweaver

as you point at the [\r\n]{2,} replaced by \n can do the job, but will avoid lines starting by a TAB char... (it often happen in code text)... perhaps adding a \t starting the square bracket will help to catch them

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Paul-MAuthor
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Jul 28, 2018 3:35 AM UTC

This appears to work:

https://www.brmecham.com/how-to-remove-blank-lines-in-dreamweaver/

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