Remove Spaces Between Characters

terratec1234 · Jan 20, 2015#12015-01-20T18:55+00:00

Hello.

Is it possible to remove all space between characters in a text document so that everything is compacted onto one line? Space typically varies between 1 and 10 spaces, and some empty lines between lines also.

So if a text document had 3 lines:

Cat
Mouse
Dog

or

Cat

Mouse

Dog

...it becomes:

CatMouseDog

Some files have far more lines of text but would take too long to manually remove all the empty space.

Thanks.

Ovg · Jan 20, 2015#22015-01-20T19:04+00:00

Search->Replace
Find what: [\r\n\s]
Replace with: leave this field empty
Check In Current file
Check Regular expressions and choose Perl
Check Replace all from top of file
Press Replace all button ....

terratec1234 · Jan 21, 2015#32015-01-21T23:43+00:00

Many thanks. That was exactly what I wanted

PS Sorry for the late reply, I only got the topic notification e-mail this evening.

Mofi · Jan 22, 2015#42015-01-22T16:58+00:00

One more note: \s+ would be enough as search string as the character class referenced by \s includes all white spaces, see white space section in Perl Regular Expression Character Classes documentation.

Please note that in UltraEdit the Boost regular expression library is used and not ActivePerl. Therefore small differences are possible in character class set definitions, too.

Ovg · Jan 22, 2015#52015-01-22T17:02+00:00

Thank you Mofi for clarifying this! Really.