Join lines with specific symbol

[Salamander931]

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?

[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.