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Kate Reg. Exp. & Newlines
I'm going insane trying to work out why Kate (KDevelop) ignores the newline character \n in Find/Replace.
I can't add or replace newlines in a Replace operation - a very basic function that I used all the time with Ultraedit edit in Windows. Stripping out empty lines (for example) from a several thousand line file is no fun done manually!
Can anyone tell me a workaround, a way of changing Kates behaviour or give the Kate developer a poke in the eye?
I remember a similar question on a KDE user mailinglist.
If I remember correctly the problem is not that it doesn't match newline, but that it cannot replace it with "nothing", i.e. cannot remove it.
You could try using the reg exp on the commandline with sed for now and have a look if you can vote for the respective bug on bugs.kde.org (I am pretty sure there is already one for that)
Cheers,
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Qt/KDE Developer
Debian User
I'll check the bug-list again, although I failed to find a similar problem listed the last time.
It does definately fail to match a newline though and can quite happily replace a string with nothing. I've replaced other special characters (e.g. Tab) with nothing too - but if you do a search for newline (\n) nothing is found.
I managed to match the newlines, but I can't remove empty lines. I even tried matching more than one line in a go (with something simmilar to: [^\n][\n]+[^\n]) but I wasn't able to get rid of those empty lines, although that might be the way to do it (in this situation those chars that match [^\n] have to be put back into the text).
The simplest solution would be to match
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Source code
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1
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^\n$
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or even
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Source code
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1
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^$
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but that won't work
Wednesday, April 17th 2024, 12:03am
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