Notepad - How can I replace blank lines

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I have a text file with a thousand lines of numbers like so   402  115  90        As you can see there is a blank line in between each number that I want to remove so that I have   402 115 90       How can I do this

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Press Ctrl H  Replace  Select Extended from SearchMode Put  r n r n in Find What Put  r n in ReplaceWith Click on Replace All

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By the way  in Notepad   there s built-in plugin that can handle this  TextFX - gt  TextFX Edit - gt  Delete Blank Lines  first press CTRL A to select all

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This will remove any number of blank lines  CTRL   H to replace  Select Extended search mode  replace all  r n with   space   then switch to regular expression and replace all  s  with  n

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As of NP   V6 2 3  nor sure about older versions  simply       Go menu -  Edit -  Line operations Choose  Remove Empty Lines  or  Remove Empty Lines  Containing white spaces   according to your needs    Hope this helps to achieve goal in simple and yet fast way

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This should get your sorted    Highlight from the end of the first line  to the very beginning of the third line  Use the Ctrl   H to bring up the  Find and Replace  window  The highlighed region will already be plased in the  Find  textbox  Replace with   r n  Replace All  will then remove all the additional line spaces not required    Here s how it should look

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You can record a macro that removes the first blank line  and positions the cursor correctly for the second line  Then you can repeat executing that macro

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