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Does anyone know how to delete a line using Find & Replace in Notepad++ ?
In my Find query it finds the proper lines okay: ^.pPrev.$
In the Replace field, I leave it blank thinking the line should deleted (i.e. replaced with nothing), but the newline and endline characters remain.
Within notepad there is no way to use the Find and Replace and target blank lines. Consider Notepad++ and the regex search and replace.
You can use \r\n to find blank lines from text files made within Windows, \r for Mac and \n for Linux.
I believe a default install actually comes with TextFX to make your life even easier, it has an option to delete blank lines:
Yes you can, I just tried to record a new macro, did a search and replace and it successfully saved the action so when I played the macro, it did the same search and replace action.
I am not an expert at Notepad++ Macros, but I am guessing you are... I opened a random file and created a macro called test. It looked for a word called "snip" and replaced it with "blaa".
Opening up the shortcuts.xml file after closing Notepad++ reveals this new macro:
<Macro name="test" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">
<Action type="3" message="1700" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1601" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="snip" />
<Action type="3" message="1625" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1602" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="blaa" />
<Action type="3" message="1702" wParam="0" lParam="768" sParam="" />
<Action type="3" message="1701" wParam="0" lParam="1608" sParam="" />
</Macro>
This is tested and works on my machine, I can manually modify this file and the changes get reflected and work in Notepad++.
Please note however, the shortcuts.xml file (located in your Appdata folder), only gets loaded and saved on opening/exiting Notepad++.
Best Answer
Use the "Extended" setting in the Replace window (not "Regular expression": I'm sure there's a way to do it with Regular expression, but using "Extended" works fine).
Enter "
.pPrev.\r\n" in the "Find what" field, and leave the "Replace what" field blank. This will include the \r\n characters in the match and delete the whole line.