Join two lines

bigredcherokee

So Ctrl-j works when I highlight two lines. Can’t really do a Ctrl-a / Ctrl-j cause that just makes everything one line.

the first line ending in 0
the second line looks like this: N 0

I need to move the second line up to the end of the first line. Like this 0 N 0

how can I do a find and replace in this document that 2,193 lines?

PeterJones

@bigredcherokee

Use regular expressions:

FIND = (?-s)^(.*)\R(.*(\R|\Z))
REPLACE = $1 $2
REPLACE ALL

=>

(because of the (\R|\Z), it will work whether the last line ends with a newline or EOF)

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bigredcherokee

Thanks for that. Forgot to note that not all lines are problems.

Michael Vincent

@bigredcherokee said in Join two lines:

Forgot to note that not all lines are problems.

LOL!!

https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21107/regex-remove-headings-that-has-no-full-stop-at-the-end/10

PeterJones

@bigredcherokee said in Join two lines:

Thanks for that. Forgot to note that not all lines are problems.

Okay, that was partly my fault. You said the first ends with 0 and the adjacent line looked like N 0, but I assumed you weren’t telling us the whole story, and since you had originally brought up manual Ctrl+J, I had assumed that it really was “every other line”

You just have to add 0 to the end of the first group, to force that group to end with a 0; and replace the .* in the second group with the literal N 0 to force that group to contain exact text, not the .* wildcard.

FIND = (?-s)^(.*0)\R(N 0(\R|\Z))

everything else stays the same

So

line 1 0
N 0
other
line 4 0
N 0
line 6 0
but doesn't join
line X 0
N 0

becomes

line 1 0 N 0
other
line 4 0 N 0
line 6 0
but doesn't join
line X 0 N 0

Of course, if you had given example data which showed both lines that should be changed and lines that shouldn’t, we wouldn’t have had this problem.

@Michael-Vincent linked to @Alan-Kilborn 's

Maybe we need a template

As has been proven hundreds of times in the official issues location, people won’t use the template even if it’s literally there every time they start a new issue – and this forum doesn’t have such a feature.

Alan Kilborn

@PeterJones

The idea of a “template” was that if people can’t follow it and create an understandable “problem statement”, no one wastes time even responding to them here.

And yes, there is no way to force a template here AFAIK, but rather they would be directed to a FAQ with the templated questions.

bigredcherokee

@PeterJones Thanks Peter for the help.