Move character to end of previous line

Darren Brown

Hi. I’m trying to move the pipe on the new line to the end of the previous line, for example -

233307|35|ABCD|00001111|01/03/2016|||n|n|AB/123456
|
233307|36|ABCD|00002222|01/03/2016|||n|n|AB/123456
|
233307|37|DCBAL|00003333|01/03/2016|||n|n||

to -

233307|35|ABCD|00001111|01/03/2016|||n|n|AB/123456|
233307|36|ABCD|00002222|01/03/2016|||n|n|AB/123456|
233307|37|DCBAL|00003333|01/03/2016|||n|n||

I can search for the pipe at the start of a new line with ^\s*| but can’t figure out what syntax to use for the replace to move it up to the end of the previous line. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

gerdb42

@darren-brown
You need to modify your regex to include the preceding line break: \R\s*\|$. If you replace this with | you will get your desired result. Note that I also escaped the | since it has special meaning in regexes. This is a quick-and-dirty shot, there are more elaborate approaches.

Darren Brown

@gerdb42 said in Move character to end of previous line:

\R\s*|$

Brilliant, I’ve just tested and it works perfectly. Thanks for the quick response.