\s+ matches one or more whitespace characters; as such, blank lines proper (i.e. without trailing whitespace) won't be matched by ^\s+$.
Try ^\s*$ (lines containing 0 or more whitespace characters). On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Mike Pullen <mike.pul...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. This regular expression works in BBEdit to find all blank lines and all > lines containing only whitespace: ^\n|^\s+\n > > > 2. However, this regular expression does not find all of those same lines: > ^\s+$ > > > I've attached the file (test.txt) that I am using to test both regex's. > > > I would like to understand why the second regex doesn't work. > > > Help, please. > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a > feature request or would like to report a problem, please email > "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
