How to find and delete all the line breaks? I tried \n and it doesn't work! Regular expression? what kinda of expression?
I found the answer in the TextMate IRC channel.
Press Option Return to search for literal line breaks in the Find and Replace panel.
Searching for \n works if you select the "Regular Expression" option, but won't work in the literal search mode.
Without regex (regular search):
Alt + ⏎
Select the empty space in between the lines and Copy. Then Select the block of text you want to remove line breaks from. Go to Find & Replace. Paste the copied empty space in the Find field. Type a space in the Replace field. Hold Option, which toggles Replace All to In Selection, then click In Selection. This should do the trick.
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I have this little challenge.
I want to ask, how do i sort the emails using the color code (light green) as stated in this picture here
I have tried to remove the non emails by scrolling through, but i need a solution that can make it a one click through sorting.
I will appreciate your kind response.
Open the Replace dialog box and enter the following regex in the Find field:
^((.*#[^\.]*)|([^#]+))$\n
Change the radio button to Regular Expressions. This regex pattern finds any line without a dot after # or any line without a #. Note that you need the last line of the document to be empty as shown in line 7 of your document.
Since we are deleting those lines, the "Replace with" field is blank. Now click Replace All.
Dreamweaver has a very convenient search option at its "Find and Replace" dialog called "Ignore whitespace".
By checking that, you can find the same text no matter how many new lines, tabs or spaces you add or remove. All these variations below are the same text:
search for me please
(adding some blank spaces)
search for me please
(adding a new line)
search for me
please
How can I search with Notepad++ while ignoring all the whitespace?
Actually, it's quite not convenient to do that in notepad++.
1.You can Go to Search -> Replace
2.Select "Regular expression" under Search mode
3.Use \s* to replace space in your sentence for Find what and leave Replace with blank
4.Click Find Next
In your case, input "search\s*for\s*me\s*please" in Find what
'\s*' means any number (even 0) of whitespace characters. Whitespace characters include tab,space,newline and carriage return.
I have a big file and I want to remove all the lines that have the word date
For example:
{
date: 10291992
stuff: stuff
...
},
{
date: 02171995
stuff: stuff
...
},
...
So I want to remove all the lines that contains the word date but since each date has a different date, I can't just ctrl f and replace it. I was reading that putting ^.* in the front but it didn't work for me.
I'm currently using Sublime Text 3.
Thanks.
All you need to do is open the Find dialog (Find -> Find...), search for date, hit Find All to select all instances of your search pattern, then select Selection -> Expand Selection to Line. Hit Delete and you're all done.
I tried to follow the accepted answer but found it wasn't working for me: the Expand Selection to Line button was not expanding the selection for all the matched lines.
What did work, though, was to switch to regular expression mode (the *. button on the left of the Find menu) and do a search for
\n.+date.+
replacing it with an empty string. This removes the entire line (i.e., doesn't leave an empty line in its place).
Or faster: highlight date, hit Alt+F3 to Quick Find All, then Ctrl+X twice to delete the line.
Is there any way to put a cursor to a beginning of each line in Sublime Text, given that the beginning of each line is different so it's impossible to do a search by a pattern and then select all the occurrences? I want to do that without any plugin.
An alternative to MattDMo's answer could be to select all (ctrlA), then split selection into lines (ctrlshiftL), then move to the beginning of the line (home) to get the cursors in the proper position and cancel out the selection.
This would avoid the regex search.
Do a regex search for \n, then hit Find All (AltEnter) to select all the newline characters (the very end of each line). Next, hit ← to remove the selections, which places the cursors at the end of each line. Finally, hit Home twice to move the cursors to the beginning of each line.
I'm wondering if it's possible to search for a certain line of a text using Xcode's Find & Replace feature, and fully delete the line so not even blank space is left over. Is this possible and if so how?
Copy the line you want to delete, including the newline character at the end of the line by triple-clicking on it (the selection should go all the way to the far right side of the editor pane). Perform a find and replace; paste the line into the the top field, and leave the replace field blank. Click Replace All.
On the latest Xcode you can just insert line break in the search field. Click on magnifying glass icon -> insert pattern -> Line Break