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    • Salamander931S
      Salamander931
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      I have text like this

      678,“Name”,2017
      \n<strong>Country: </strong>UK
      \n<strong>Save:</strong> UN.
      679,“Name”,2019
      \n<strong>Country: </strong>USA
      \n<strong>Save:</strong> UNC.
      \n<strong>Count:</strong> 3.

      And I need to make it look like this

      678,“Name”,2017\n<strong>Country: </strong>UK\n<strong>Save:</strong> UN.
      679,“Name”,2019\n<strong>Country: </strong>USA\n<strong>Save:</strong> UNC.\n<strong>Count:</strong> 3.

      So basically I want to join line that starts with “\n” with previous line and I don’t want to delete this “\n” symbol. Any ideas how to do this?

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      • Terry RT
        Terry R
        last edited by Terry R

        @Salamander931 said in Join lines with specific symbol:

        So basically I want to join line that starts with “\n” with previous line and I don’t want to delete this “\n” symbol. Any ideas how to do this?

        Using a regular expression in the “Replace” function we have:
        Find What:(?-s)\R^(\\n.+)
        Replace With:\1
        So search mode must be regular expression. Click on the “Replace All” button to change the entire file.

        You will see the \\ in the expression because the \ is regarded as a special character, so the additional \ escapes it, or reverts it to a normal character.

        Terry

        PS since you didn’t show the example inside of a black box (read the “read me before posting”) it’s possible this might not work. I suspect you may have leading spaces on some lines.

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