delete an empty line after a specific text

[tonymattina]

If an empty line is preceded by a specific text, then I want to delete it

…gc Mstem
[empty line]
new line…

I want to end up with
…gc Mstem
new line…

I would appreciate some help.

[PeterJones]

@tonymattina

FIND = gc Mstem\R\K\R
REPLACE = leave empty
REPLACE ALL

the first \R is the newline before the empty; the \K means keep the stuff that went before; the second \R is the newline for the empty line; because of the \K, it keeps most, and just replaces the second newline (and “replace with empty” = “delete”).

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[tonymattina]

Thank you very much.
I found that NP++ finds the empty line after “gc Mstem” and highlights the next line.
I have tried replace with nothing and it leaves the blank line there.
So there is something I still do not understand.
I’m working on it!

[Coises]

@tonymattina said in delete an empty line after a specific text:

So there is something I still do not understand.

It is possible that you are victim of a quirk.

Regular expressions that use \K do not work properly if you try to replace them in Notepad++ one at a time; they only work when you use Replace All.