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• • May 12, 2021 at 12:32 pm #14339313
    Godfried Vonk

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    I want to find multiple carriage returns before a page break (or other break), to delete them. But the query \r\r+ (or ~b~b+, or \v\v+) also includes the page break, obviously that’s not what I want. Positive lookahead doesn’t work: \r\r+(?=~P) excludes the page break, but finds max. 5 returns… (Why?)
    Does anyone have a clue?

  • May 13, 2021 at 2:10 pm #14339343
    Dhafir Photo

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    Try this:
    (?s)~b+(?=\r)

    • May 13, 2021 at 2:52 pm #14339344
      Dhafir Photo

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      Or this:
      +(?=\r)

  • May 13, 2021 at 2:57 pm #14339345
    Godfried Vonk

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    +(?=\r) does the thing!

  • May 13, 2021 at 3:04 pm #14339346
    Godfried Vonk

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    Although it also finds multiple carriage returns that are not followed by a break, so it is not very specific.

  • May 16, 2021 at 9:01 am #14339357
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

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    1/
    Find ~P
    Apply a condition

    2/
    Find ^\r+ without condition
    Replace by nothing

    3/
    Find \r(?=\r)
    Replace by nothing

    4/
    Find condition
    Replace by “no condition”

    Of course, using a queries launcher, you just need “1 click”!

    (^/) The Jedi

  • May 17, 2021 at 3:22 am #14339360
    Godfried Vonk

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    Thanks! I see that these in-between-steps are necessary.

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