Re: (Case 417198) Need to remove blank lines

On 01/14/2021, at 10:08, Bruce Van Allen mailto:b...@cruzio.com>> wrote: > Here’s Rich’s explanation of BBEdit’s behavior. > > I’m still not clear why Christopher seems to get different results. Hey Bruce, I figured it out. The original data sample from Howard has many tabs in the “blank”

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Hi All, Here’s Rich’s explanation of BBEdit’s behavior. I’m still not clear why Christopher seems to get different results. HTH Forwarded message: From: Bare Bones Software Technical Support To: Bruce Van Allen Subject: Re: (Case 417198) Need to remove blank lines Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021

Re: Need to remove blank lines

On 01/13/2021, at 19:22, Bruce Van Allen > wrote: I think people might be getting differing behavior because trying with different versions of BBEdit. I’m running the latest beta (version 13.5.5 build 415089), and my “Process Lines Containing…” dialogue looks different

Re: Need to remove blank lines

> On Jan 13, 2021, at 8:22 PM, Bruce Van Allen > wrote: > > I think people might be getting differing behavior because trying with > different versions of BBEdit. > > I’m running the latest beta (version 13.5.5 build 415089), and my “Process > Lines Containing…”

Re: Need to remove blank lines

On 01/13/2021, at 19:22, Bruce Van Allen mailto:b...@cruzio.com>> wrote: > I think people might be getting differing behavior because trying with > different versions of BBEdit. > I’m running the latest beta (version 13.5.5 build 415089), and my “Process > Lines Containing…” dialogue looks

Re: Need to remove blank lines

Cool, but it still fails when trying to remove completely empty lines in a test document. > On 2021-01-14, at 12:56, Christopher Stone wrote: > > On 01/13/2021, at 17:15, Tom Robinson > wrote: >> Huh, I was going to say use Process Lines Containing, but search

Re: Need to remove blank lines

On 01/13/2021, at 17:15, Tom Robinson mailto:barefootg...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Huh, I was going to say use Process Lines Containing, but search for ^$ and > select Grep and Delete matched lines — saves the copying & pasting step. > > But BBEdit isn’t finding the blank lines. Hey Tom, It works

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Yep, that was the first thing I tried, too. The more elaborate scheme I described below was my workaround when that didn't work. > On Jan 13, 2021, at 6:15 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: > > Huh, I was going to say use Process Lines Containing, but search for ^$ and > select Grep and Delete matched

Re: Need to remove blank lines

Huh, I was going to say use Process Lines Containing, but search for ^$ and select Grep and Delete matched lines — saves the copying & pasting step. But BBEdit isn’t finding the blank lines. ^$ does work in the normal Find dialog. Cheers > On 2021-01-14, at 12:04, Neil Faiman wrote: > >

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Edit > Process Lines Containing ... In the dialog box, Find lines containing: . (a single period character), check "Grep", check "Copy to clipboard", Click "Process". Now the clipboard contains all the non-blank lines from the document (i.e., all the lines containing any character), so Cmd-A,

Re: Need to remove blank lines

On 01/13/2021, at 16:28, Howard mailto:leadwithlo...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I have several hundred lines of data. Each observation occupies two lines; > however, in a number of places (not all) a blank line exists between > observations. For example, between the first data element, Max Scherzer,

Re: Need to remove blank lines

Le 13/01/2021 à 23:28, Howard a écrit : I have several hundred lines of data. Each observation occupies two lines; however, in a number of places (not all) a blank line exists between observations. For example, between the first data element, Max Scherzer, and the second one, Justin

Need to remove blank lines

I have several hundred lines of data. Each observation occupies two lines; however, in a number of places (not all) a blank line exists between observations. For example, between the first data element, Max Scherzer, and the second one, Justin Verlander, is a blank line. (A sample is below.)