How to find double linebreaks in Notepad++?

Question

Take for example the following:

This text file has many


double linebreaks, What is the expression


too find  these?

Do you want to find double linebreaks only or *atleast* double? — amiregelz, Dec 12 '12 at 09:37

Tim Radcliffe · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-12T10:14:03.013

10

If you use "regular expression" search mode:

(\r\n\s*$){2,}

Will find all instances of 2 or more blank lines, including ones that just have spaces on the line.

E.G. using a replace of \r\n

something



something else



another thing

Another








Another thing

Becomes

something

something else

another thing

Another

Another thing

edited Dec 12 '12 at 10:14

answered Dec 12 '12 at 10:05

Tim Radcliffe

I ran into this issue using FTP for an old server. This option didn't work for me. I also did not want to remove more than the doubled linebreaks. This worked well for me instead: `(\r\n|\r|\n){2}`. Replaced with `\r\n`, all is well. – Radley Sustaire Oct 03 '16 at 17:32

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 12 '12 at 10:42

2

Press Ctrl+F, select extended search mode and search for \r\n\r\n.

edited Dec 12 '12 at 10:42

Indrek

answered Dec 12 '12 at 09:39

SparedWhisle

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 12 '12 at 09:39

To find double or more linebreaks (and ignore single linebreaks), search in Extended Mode for the following expression:

\r\n\r\n\r\n

It will match this case:

line a


line b

but not this one:

line a

line b

If you want to search and replace, you need to modify the expression a little bit.

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