At 12:11 pm on Saturday, May 21, 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(CPHennessy) said:

> You need to use "regular expressions". have a look at "Help" ->
> "Contents" and search for regualr expressions.

Hello, there.

Thanks for the advice. I've been through the regular expressions, and I
cannot find a set that do this job. For example:

\n (which I would expect to locate a newline) doesn't find anything.
^$ will find a blank line, but $^$ won't locate a newline followed by a
blank line.

I even tried \.$^$ Now that found "." followed by newline and a blank
line. I could even replace that with a tab using \.\t (to retain the "."
at the end of the sentence.

Find \.\t worked OK, but replace with \.$^$ put exactly those characters
in the text.

And I could not find anyway of finding a newline (on its own) and
replacing it by a space.

Could you give me specific details of how to do this, please. It's not
only annoying and frustrating, but, as a Unix guru of 16+ years it makes
me feel very stupid, too.

Thanks,

Dave
-- 
Dave Smith
Wordsmith and yarnspinner, singer and storyteller

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