Also, I don't think homesite supports \s. IIRC, it's regex engine is equivalent to CF5's engine.
--Ben Rick Root wrote: > 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:4:235472 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
