Re: Removing blank/empty lines

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Removing blank/empty lines

Use a regex like /$\s*^/ to anchor the pattern at both ends and search for zero-or-more occurrences of a space character between.

[Athanasius]

Good idea, but back-to-front! In a regex, ^ matches the beginning of a line, and $ matches the end of a line. See Regular Expressions.

(I always used to get these mixed up, too. Maybe it’s because $ is generally used as a sigil, and therefore we get used to seeing it come first in identifiers?)

Update: I see that marquezc329 has already corrected this in Re: Removing blank/empty lines.