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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/

 

 

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