Sublime notes

The following are some notes & examples of using Sublime Text for quick text editing, typically using regular expressions.

All the examples below typically start with:

1. Go to the Find → Replace
   – or press ⌘ Cmd + Alt + F on Mac
2. Select the ‘Regular expression‘ by clicking on the .* button in the – or press ⌘ Cmd + Alt + R on Mac

How to delete all lines starting with a number/digit

1. In the Find field, type in:

• ^[[:digit:]].*

2. Leave the Replace field empty

3. Click on the Replace All button

 

How to delete empty lines

1. In the Find field, type in:

• ^(\r|\n\r?) to delete empty lines including those with whitespace
• ^\n to delete empty lines excluding those with whitespace
  

2. Leave the Replace field empty

3. Click on the Replace All button

Credit: https://www.shellhacks.com/sublime-text-remove-empty-lines/

 

 

Tags: regex, sublime, tools