<![CDATA[Remove CRLF Not Preceded by a Space]]>I have a text file that contains 10000 records exported from DataPerfect. There are many unwanted CRLFs that I need to remove. Most of the problem CRLFs are NOT preceded by a space. The valid CRLFs are usually preceded by a space.

Is there a way that I can use the replace function to remove the CRLFs that are NOT preceded by a space?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/14371/remove-crlf-not-preceded-by-a-spaceRSS for NodeWed, 12 Aug 2026 05:22:43 GMTSun, 27 Aug 2017 09:25:27 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Remove CRLF Not Preceded by a Space on Sun, 27 Aug 2017 21:19:26 GMT]]>Thanks Scott. Much appreciated.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/26475https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/26475Sun, 27 Aug 2017 21:19:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Remove CRLF Not Preceded by a Space on Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:20:27 GMT]]>@Wayne-Aprato

Any decent text editor has a way of doing what you need and Notepad++ is no exception.

Invoke the Replace dialog, and then:

Find-what zone: (?<!\x20)\r\n
Replace-with zone: make sure this zone has nothing in it
Search-mode setting: Regular expression
Action: your choice of Replace or Replace All

So in essence what the FInd-what formula is doing is finding a CRLF pair (the \r\n part), and then looking at the character immediately preceding. If it is NOT a space character (\x20), then that particular CRLF pair gets replaced (with nothing as that is what is specified in Replace with), otherwise it is left as it is.

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