Preserved Topic: Regexp madness

I think I'm bumping into the limitations of BBEdit's regexp routines here. But keep in mind that it's supposed to emulate GREP (is that POSIX style regexps?), not PerlRe. Basically I just want to delete all blank lines out of my text file. I was using the following regexp but it doesn't seem to be matching:

$^\s*$

Shouldn't that match an empty line with some tabs and spaces on it?

-jiblet

Hi jiblet,

For a perl regex you would need something like s/^\s*$// to get rid on blank lines with or wihtout spaces and not get rid of indents. I am not familiar with BBEdit's use of regex so I am not sure how that will work fo you.

Regards,
Charlie

Yeah, like I said BBEdit is supposed to emulate GREP Regexps, not PerlRe

-jiblet

This link might help you out: GREP Regex

Looks like ^ *$ should work.

Regards,
Charlie