App to remove double spaces? App to search and delete lines?

[Slickone]

Does anyone know of an app or plugin that will remove double spaced lines in text files?

What about one that will search for a string, then delete that entire line of text?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

grep and sed

 

[notfred]

s/\n\n/\n/g;

s/^.*string.*$//g;

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

\r\n

 

[alm4rr]

eh?

 

[rainypickles]

word will do that if you do a search and replace, if thats what you want. the special character for enter/return is ^p so you can search for ^p^p and replace it with ^p. or replace two spaces with one space. word will also delete particular lines, just search for them and replace with nothing.

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: rainypickles
word will do that if you do a search and replace, if thats what you want. the special character for enter/return is ^p so you can search for ^p^p and replace it with ^p. or replace two spaces with one space.

Can Textpad do this? I tried searching for ^p, but it only looks for the literal. It can search for Hex.

word will also delete particular lines, just search for them and replace with nothing.

I knew about that, but I need to search for one of a list of several different strings, and if it finds a match, delete it's line. I want to be able to automatically quickly search for any of these strings, and not have to do it one by one.

 

[Slickone]

^

 

[sandorski]

Hmm, I'm not very handy with these apps, but couldn't you just highlight All then change the format/properties to singleline from doubleline?

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Hmm, I'm not very handy with these apps, but couldn't you just highlight All then change the format/properties to singleline from doubleline?

No.

 

[rainypickles]

Originally posted by: Slickone

Originally posted by: rainypickles
word will do that if you do a search and replace, if thats what you want. the special character for enter/return is ^p so you can search for ^p^p and replace it with ^p. or replace two spaces with one space.

Can Textpad do this? I tried searching for ^p, but it only looks for the literal. It can search for Hex.

as far as i know, only Word will do that. sory