If **every** paragraph ends with a period, you could try to change only those not of that form, something like
find: ([^\.])\n replace: \1 or perhaps adding a space at the end of the replacing string. You might want to consider first hyphenated words (if any): lines ending with a hyphen just before newline. Best, Nestor On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Mark C. <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
