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Removing empty lines in Notepad++
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I have a text file with a thousand lines of numbers like so:
402
115
90
...
As you can see there is a blank line in between each number that I want to remove so that I have
402
115
90
...
How can I do this?
As of NP++ V6.2.3 (nor sure about older versions) simply:
- Go menu -> Edit -> Line operations
- Choose "Remove Empty Lines" or "Remove Empty Lines (Containing white spaces)" according to your needs.
Hope this helps to achieve goal in simple and yet fast way:)
By the way, in Notepad++ there's built-in plugin that can handle this:
TextFX -> TextFX Edit -> Delete Blank Lines
(first press CTRL+A to select all).
This will remove any number of blank lines
CTRL + H to replace
Select Extended search mode
replace all \r\n
with
(space)
then switch to regular expression and replace all \s+
with \n
You can record a macro that removes the first blank line, and positions the cursor correctly for the second line. Then you can repeat executing that macro.
This should get your sorted:
- Highlight from the end of the first line, to the very beginning of the third line.
- Use the
Ctrl + H
to bring up the 'Find and Replace' window.
- The highlighed region will already be plased in the 'Find' textbox.
- Replace with:
\r\n
- 'Replace All' will then remove all the additional line spaces not required.
Here's how it should look: