How to make all data in one line

[djmcg]

Hello .
I have txt file with example 1000 line I would like to have all of them in on line.
It` s possible to use Backspace or delete of end of the line but cost lot of time .
any ideas?

[guy038]

Hello, @djmcg,

Very easy, indeed !

• Open your file in Notepad++

• Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )

• Check the Wrap around option

• Choose the Regular expression search mode

• Fill in the regex (\h*\R)+ in the Find what: zone

• Fill in the regex \x20 in the Replace with: zone

• Click on the Replace All button

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Of course, you could have used the two N++ built-in commands Edit > Blank operations > EOL to Space or Edit > Blank operations > Remove Unnecessary Blank and EOL, but :

• The later command does not merge consecutive Line Break, before changing it by a single Space character

• The former command acts as the later command and, in addition, does not trim any trailing blank character ( Space or Tab ), before replacing it by a single Space character

On the contrary, my regex will replace, systematically, any gap between two non-empty lines, with a single Space character :-)) Saying “non-empty lines”, I mean lines containing, at least, one non-blank character !

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Now, if your text contains some words, separated with more than 1 space or with Tabulation characters and than you would like to normalize all these blank characters, between words, to a single Space character, use the following regex S/R :

SEARCH \h{2,}

REPLACE \x20

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Notes :

• The quantifiers :

  • *, or {0,}, means 0 or more times, the preceding character or group

  • +, or {1,}, means 1 or more times, the preceding character or group

  • {2,} means 2 or more times, the preceding character or group

• \x20 represents any single Space character, of Unicode value \x{0020}

• \h represents any single Horizontal Blank character :

  • The Space character, ( SP ), of Unicode value \x{0020}

  • The Horizontal Tabulation character, ( HT ), of Unicode value \x{0009}

  • The No-Break Space character( NBSP ) , of Unicode value \x{00A0}

• \R represents any single New Line sequence :

  • The usual Line Break character(s) :

    • \r\n, of Unicode value \x{000D}\x{000A}, in a Windows file

    • \n, of Unicode value \x{000A}, in a Unix file

    • \r, of Unicode value \x{000D}, in a Macintosh file

  • The Vertical Tabulation character, of Unicode value \x{000B}

  • The Form Feed character, of Unicode value \x{000C}

  • The Next Line character ( NEL ), of Unicode value \x{0085}

  • The Line Separator character, ( LS ), of Unicode value \x{2028}, in a Unicode encoded file

  • The Paragraph Separator character, ( PS ), of Unicode value \x{2029}, in a Unicode encoded file

So, to be short :

• The regex \h is equivalent to the regex [\t\x20\xA0]

• The regex \R is equivalent to the regex \r\n|[\n\x0b\f\r\x85\x{2028}\x{2029}]

Best Regards,

guy038

[djmcg]

Hello guy038
The first option`s works perfectly.
Thank You.