BBEdit-compatible regex for remove blank lines

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i've tried other regexes that are supposed to be able to remove blank lines from a document, but none of them seem to work within BBEdit's find-and-replace.

What is a regex for stripping blank lines from a document that will work in bbedit?

bbedit regex
7 Answers

Find: \r+ Replace with: \r

Grep option should be checked.

user_88651420

BBEdit.. Text --> process duplicate lines. Delete duplicate lines

user_15655230

For truly blank lines in BBedit, I search for:

^$\r

and replace with nothing. This finds the blank lines and removes the contents of the line and the linefeed.

An alternative I have used when I forget how to match a linefeed is to use:

.+

…to match one or more characters and then use the extract button rather than replace all. Instead of deleting your blank lines, you are keeping any line with something on it.

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