Hey all, It turns out that all I had to do was capitalize the R at the end as mentioned above. I had the recipe in notes from years ago and was just following what I wrote down then. My regex and bbedit understanding is very rusty so appreciate everyone chiming in. David On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 8:28:35 AM UTC-7 Patrick Woolsey wrote:
> On 4/26/21 at 7:37 PM, [email protected] (David J) wrote: > > >I'm trying to take out any empty lines from a document and > >can't figure out why it's not working. I'm adding the text, > >then selecting all then adding grep > > > >^\s*?\r > >then replace all with nothing. I'm getting "not found" on any document. > > > Since your above pattern should suffice to remove all blank > lines (lines which are empty or contain only whitespace), please > turn on the "Show matches" search option as well as View -> Text > Display -> Show Invisibles in hopes these may shed some light on > the matter. > > If it doesn't, then a Zipped sample file is probably in order. > > [PS: You need not select anything before performing the Replace > All _unless_ you need to limit the scope of this command to a > specific part of the document via the "Search in: Selected text > only" option.] > > > Regards > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/> > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/3db81b32-962a-4835-a809-6ab48f80fc38n%40googlegroups.com.
