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• • September 15, 2013 at 2:19 am #65279
    kartik manoj

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    Hello Everyone,
    I have somewhat sticky situation. I have a text file with a lot of paragraphs in it. The problem is, the text file is formatted in such a way that, for line breaks, a carriage return is used and for paragraph breaks a double carriage return is used. I converted the double carriage return to single but my predicament starts here. I want to convert the carriage returns used for line breaks to spaces but leave the carriage returns used to separate the paragraphs. Is there any way to achieve the formatting I want?
    Example of content I am talking about can be found at gutenberg.org text file books.

  • September 15, 2013 at 2:45 am #65280
    Gert Verrept

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    I would first change the double returns into a “dummy” char (one which isn’t used in the text).
    Then, change all the returns with spaces.
    Third, replace the “dummy” again with the double carriage returns.
    This should do the trick more or less.

  • September 15, 2013 at 2:50 am #65281
    kartik manoj

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    @gret Thanks for helping. It is definitely possible. Could you please tell me the grep code for this find and replace?

  • September 15, 2013 at 5:01 am #65282
    kartik manoj

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    @Gret I’d used another method to solve the problem. While placing the text file, I checked the show import options check box and then a dialog box opened which had the option of replacing the carriage returns at the end of the line to spaces while leaving the paragraph returns. Thanks for the help.

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