How to make all data in one line

djmcg

Hello .
I have txt file with example 1000 line I would like to have all of them in on line.
It` s possible to use Backspace or delete of end of the line but cost lot of time .
any ideas?

guy038

Hello, @djmcg,

Very easy, indeed !

Open your file in Notepad++
Open the Replace dialog ( Ctrl + H )
Check the Wrap around option
Choose the Regular expression search mode
Fill in the regex (\h*\R)+ in the Find what: zone
Fill in the regex \x20 in the Replace with: zone
Click on the Replace All button

Of course, you could have used the two N++ built-in commands Edit > Blank operations > EOL to Space or Edit > Blank operations > Remove Unnecessary Blank and EOL, but :

The later command does not merge consecutive Line Break, before changing it by a single Space character
The former command acts as the later command and, in addition, does not trim any trailing blank character ( Space or Tab ), before replacing it by a single Space character

On the contrary, my regex will replace, systematically, any gap between two non-empty lines, with a single Space character :-)) Saying “non-empty lines”, I mean lines containing, at least, one non-blank character !

Now, if your text contains some words, separated with more than 1 space or with Tabulation characters and than you would like to normalize all these blank characters, between words, to a single Space character, use the following regex S/R :

SEARCH \h{2,}

REPLACE \x20

Notes :

The quantifiers :
- *, or {0,}, means 0 or more times, the preceding character or group
- +, or {1,}, means 1 or more times, the preceding character or group
- {2,} means 2 or more times, the preceding character or group
\x20 represents any single Space character, of Unicode value \x{0020}
\h represents any single Horizontal Blank character :
- The Space character, ( SP ), of Unicode value \x{0020}
- The Horizontal Tabulation character, ( HT ), of Unicode value \x{0009}
- The No-Break Space character( NBSP ) , of Unicode value \x{00A0}
\R represents any single New Line sequence :
- The usual Line Break character(s) :
  - \r\n, of Unicode value \x{000D}\x{000A}, in a Windows file
  - \n, of Unicode value \x{000A}, in a Unix file
  - \r, of Unicode value \x{000D}, in a Macintosh file
- The Vertical Tabulation character, of Unicode value \x{000B}
- The Form Feed character, of Unicode value \x{000C}
- The Next Line character ( NEL ), of Unicode value \x{0085}
- The Line Separator character, ( LS ), of Unicode value \x{2028}, in a Unicode encoded file
- The Paragraph Separator character, ( PS ), of Unicode value \x{2029}, in a Unicode encoded file

So, to be short :

The regex \h is equivalent to the regex [\t\x20\xA0]
The regex \R is equivalent to the regex \r\n|[\n\x0b\f\r\x85\x{2028}\x{2029}]

Best Regards,

guy038

djmcg

Hello guy038
The first option`s works perfectly.
Thank You.