Visual Studio has ability to delete empty lines in replace operation using regular expressions.
1.Click Ctrl-H (quick replace)
2. Tick “Use Regular Expressions”
3. In Find specify ^$\n
4. In Replace box delete everything.
5 Click “Replace All”
All empty lines will be deleted.
Regular expression for empty line consist of
| Beginning of line ^ | ||
| End of line $ |
| Line break \n |
Note that normally in Windows an end of line indicated by 2 characters CRLF – Carriage Return (CR, ASCII 13, \r) Line Feed (LF, ASCII 10, \n).
Addition from Kenneth at 6/18/2009:
A regex to remove blank lines that are/aren’t *really* blank (i.e. they do/don’t have spaces): ^:b*$\n
source:
http://geekswithblogs.net/mnf/archive/2008/03/04/remove-empty-lines-in–text-using-visual-studio.aspx
