Rick Root wrote: > I've always found doing regular expressions find/replace in homesite to > be tedious to the point of it not working. > > If I do an extended find in homesite 5.5+ with the following regular > expression, nothing comes up. > > ^\s+$ > > that's a pretty simple "find all lines containing only whitespace" > expression, but it doesn't seem to work and I don't know why.
Hell, I figured it out. Homesite isn't doing the regex line by line so doing ^\s+$ looks at the whole document. I ended up using this in the extended replace dialog instead: " [[:space:]]+ " (without the quotes but with the linefeeds) Worked great, helped me take out all my empty lines. Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:235467 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
