Removing empty lines in Notepad++

Question

How can I replace empty lines in Notepad++? I tried a find and replace with the empty lines in the find, and nothing in the replace, but it did not work; it probably needs r

Answer 1

This obviously does not work if the blank lines contain tabs or blanks. Many web pages (e.g. http://www.guardian.co.uk/) contain these white lines, as a result of a faulty HTML editor.

Remove white space using regular expression as follows:

change pattern: [\t ]+$ into nothing.

where [\t ] matches either tab or space. '+' matches one or more occurrences, and '$' marks the end of line.

Then use notepad++/textFX to remove single or extra empty lines. Be sure that these blank lines are not significant in the given context.