Search and replace with <del> key

Hi Jan (or anyone),

Do you know how I can replace a found string with a "delete" key stroke?

I have a file where long text strings are broken onto a new line with a "$" at the end of the broken line.

I want to find all the "$"s and delete them such that the lines are joined again.

Thanks,

Neil

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Neil

PHReplace might help.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2019-05-09 14:57 by gwinkless.

gwinkless:

PHReplace might help.

Hi

Thanks for suggestion but that appears to have the same functionality as PSPad search and replace (except extra for multi line strings)

I want to be able to Find the "$" text and Replace with a <delete> such that split lines are joined again onto one line.

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Neil

Hi Jan,

I found a solution on another forum.

Using the editor TextPad I do a search for:
/$/n

which as you would know is a literal "$" followed by line return.

I replace this with:
<blank>

and the lines are rejoined.

I tried this in PSPad but it cannot find "/$/n"

Any suggestions ??

Thanks,

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Neil

Internal Search/Replace does line by line search. It can't eliminate line ends
Wat you can do is switch view to HEX mode and do search/Replace there.
Find your string, replace with nothing and switch back to text mode

Neil:

gwinkless:

PHReplace might help.

Hi

Thanks for suggestion but that appears to have the same functionality as PSPad search and replace (except extra for multi line strings)

I want to be able to Find the "$" text and Replace with a <delete> such that split lines are joined again onto one line.

but it works well for the case you've described
search for: "[$]$\r\n" (in case, you use DOS line ends)
replace with: " " (space)
use regular expression: checked

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Vany
(PSPad 5.5.1.790 x32, W10h/p x64 en/cs)

Vany:

but it works well for the case you've described
search for: "[$]$\r\n" (in case, you use DOS line ends)
replace with: " " (space)
use regular expression: checked

Hi Vany,

Sorry - I must be missing something.

I type "[$]$\r\n" into find box (with regular expression checked) and nothing found.

I am using just a plain .txt file

Cheers,

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Neil

do you really use the PHReplace ?

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Vany
(PSPad 5.5.1.790 x32, W10h/p x64 en/cs)