How would i combine Every 3 Lines together?

Aaron MC

lets say i have a list in order such as :
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
etc.

How would i be able to make Line 1, 2, 3 Join together so they look
123,
and also how would i do it with the rest of the text?
so in the end it should be
123
456
789
etc.

What im trying to do is Make Every 3 Lines join. Im not sure how to and if i press Ctrl + J after highlighting the first three it takes forever to do all manually.

guy038

Hello, @aaron-mc,

Not difficult with regular expressions !!

So, from your example, to get the text :

123
456
789

use the reges S/R, below :

SEARCH (?-s)^(.+)\R(.+)\R(.+)\R

REPLACE \1\2\3\r\n

Of course, don’t forget to check the Regular expression search mode !

Notes :

The first part (?-s) means that any dot, in the regex, will stand for an unique standard character, exclusively
Then, the symbol ^ is an assertion, looking for a beginning of line
Next, the part (.+)\R, searches an entire, NON empty, line, with its End of Line characters, whatever they are and stored as group 1, due to the parentheses
Finally, the two next syntaxes (.+)\R look for the next two complete lines, stored as group 2 and group 3
In replacement, these three lines are re-written, one after another, on a same line, followed by the Windows End of Line characters. For Unix files, use the regex \1\2\3\n, instead

For a real text example, as below :

This
is
a
very
simple
text
to
test
if our
S/R
works
properly !

We would obtain the text :

This is a
very simple text
to test if our
S/R works properly !

Remark :

Of course, as the different words must be separated by a space character, the replace regex must be changed into the regex :
\1 \2 \3\r\n, with a space character after the \1 and \2 back-references !

Best Regards,

guy038

Aaron MC

Thank you man it worked! You came clutch for me. :)