Scrivener 2.9.0.16 on Windows 10.
I’m trying to globally remove blank lines by doing Edit / Find / Project Replace then specifying Replace value of ^$ with nothing in the With field. I’ve selected RegEx from the dropdown. Hitting Replace then pauses for a sec then the dialog changes to Project Replace (Not responding) and the app hangs.
Tried the replace in selected document only as well as all docs, Same result.
Hi,
^$
/^$/ is a very weird reg exp… Maybe you should try something like /^\r?\n$/.
Or even /\r\n(\r\n)+/ replaced with ‘\r\n’.
Hope it helps.
It’s pretty standard actually.
Unfortunately no amount of playing with \r, \r\n, \n, with or without // seems to make the replace function do anything.
We don’t talk about « standard » or not, here 
. Your reg exp means « a string which contains nothing ». « ^ » means the start of the string and « $ » means the end of the string. An empty paragraph does not contain « nothing ».
« / » just means: “I write a reg exp in my post, not a string”. You don’t have to write them in the research field…
Is it clearer ? (sorry for my bad english)
On mac, this works like a charm:
Search for: (\n)\n+
Replace with: $1
Not on Windows unfortunately. Does nothing.
Hi @bob.f,
It is quite possible that the devs haven’t yet completed the code to implement RegEx in Windows 3. It might b worth trolling through the release notes in the beta download thread to see if there’s any mention. Like Philicare, I’m a Mac user, but I keep a track of the Windows development, because my collaborator is a Windows user currently using Beta 16. However RegEx hasn’t reared its head for us.
Mark.
This has been filed, Thanks.
Just to clear up some confusion for those following along at home, the difference between $ and \r\n (or \n or \r depending on your OS newline standard) is that while $ matches up to your end of line character(s), it doesn’t include them. Specifying them explicitly includes them in the match (and then in the replacement).