If I read your question correctly, you don't want to "remove that 2nd hard
return": that's the one you want to keep! All the other ones should go.
So we're searching for all lines with 36 or more characters followed by a
space (correct?) and a newline, and we will replace them with everything
except the newline.
In the search&replace box, you can (with the *Grep* checkbox checked)
search for:
^(.{36,} )\n
and replace it with
\1
(the \1 refers to the >35 characters and the space, but not the newline).
On Monday, October 9, 2017 at 4:01:54 PM UTC+2, Mark C. wrote:
>
> So I'm cleaning up a text file that was converted from a PDF file. One of
> the problems is that each line break is a hard return.
>
> I'd like to replace those hard returns.
>
> However, at the end of each paragraph, there is also a hard return, so
> replacing the hard returns will remove all paragraph formatting.
>
> However, the last line in each paragraph is never longer than 35
> characters.
>
> Is there a way within BBedit to search for [space] [hard return] [any
> sentence<35 characters [space] [hard return] and remove that 2nd hard
> return?
>
> I'm guessing I'll have to learn Sed to accomplish this, but thought I
> would ask here first. Thank you.
>
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