My post seems to have evaporated. If this turns out to be a duplicate, apologies!
Text->Remove Line Breaks appears to be a built in feature to do what you want. Basically, blocks of text with single line breaks become one long line. Two newlines separate paragraphs. View->Text Display->Soft Wrap Text will then give a pleasant visual layout without modifying the text. In my first post I suggested some regex patterns that on second glance do not seem to work. Once again, apologies! On Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 11:27:27 AM UTC-5 Neil Faiman wrote: > > On May 30, 2023, at 10:47 PM, ProjectGuru <xav...@visual2go.com> wrote: > > I'm looking for a GREP pattern that can delete the newlines that exist > ONLY after some text and NOT newline characters that exist between > paragraphs For example: > > ================================================= > > ORIGINAL TEXT: > > [Ms. Rowling] This is Ms. > Rowling, author > of the Harry Potter > collection. > And now onto the show. > > [intro music] > > [John] Hi everyone. > Welcome back to the > Harry Potter podcast. > I'm your co-host John Doe. > > DESIRED RESULT: > > [Ms. Rowling] This is Ms. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter collection. > And now onto the show. > > [intro music] > > [John] Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Harry Potter podcast. I'm your > co-host John Doe. > > ================================================= > > > This search pattern will do the trick. > > (?s)(?<=\S)\n(?=\S) > > > Command-F; put it in the Find: box, put a single space in the Replace: > box, check Grep, and click Replace All. > > Explanation: > > > - (?s) — the string being searched is the entire document, not > individual lines. > - (?<=\S)) — match the search string only when it is preceded by a > non-white-space character > - \n — the actual search string: a single newline > - (?=\S) — match the search string only when it is followed by a > non-white-space character > > > When I apply this to your original text, I get: > > [Ms. Rowling] This is Ms. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter collection. > And now onto the show. > > > [intro music] > > > [John] Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Harry Potter podcast. I'm your > co-host John Doe. > > Cheers, > Neil Faiman > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/6fd67435-bf29-40e8-8b8e-70b83ff325c8n%40googlegroups.com.
