try ^\s*?$
> On Jan 12, 2017, at 7:38 AM, Sam Hathaway <[email protected]> wrote: > > Doesn't with for me either, with latest bbedit. I'm not in front of my > computer now, but iirc bbedit would select an empty line, including that > line's linefeed, and the following line, consisting of 4 spaces, and that > lines linefeed. > > That is, in the document represented by this C string: "one\n\n \n\ntwo\n" > > It would match chars 5 through 10 (the first empty line AND the line with 4 > spaces) in one fell swoop, but would not match char 11 (the 2nd empty line). > > My uninformed guess is that bbedit is trying to be smart about whether it's > matching in single line or multiline mode, and doesn't always get it right. > (Personally, I'd like for \n to NEVER be a member of \s. You can always write > [\s\n] if that's what you want.) > -sam > > On January 11, 2017 8:59:38 PM EST, Mike Pullen <[email protected]> wrote: >> ^\s*$ does not work for me in BBEdit. BBEdit does not find the empty >> lines >> that proceeds the line containing "four" or the line containing "six" >> in my >> test file. >> >> This perl one-liner works: perl -pe 's/^\s*$//' test.txt. I think the >> same >> regex should work in BBEdit but doesn't on my system. I'm using BBEdit >> >> 11.6.4 and had the same results with 11.6.3. >> >> Could someone try the regex in BBEdit and let me know if it works for >> them? >> >> >>> > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or would like to report a problem, please email > "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit. Dmitry Markman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
