C#2.0

C#3.0

C#

VB

ASP.NET

Visual-Studio

C#4.0

Remove blank lines from code in Visual Studio

Dave Paras

Rate me:

Please Sign up or sign in to vote.

4.77/5 (52 votes)

13 Oct 2010CPOL 117K   30   31

1. Click Ctrl+H (quick replace)
2. Tick "Use Regular Expressions"
3. In Find specify "^$\n"
4. In Replace box delete everything.
5. Click "Replace All"
All Blank lines will be deleted. :)
^ Means Beginning of line
$ Means End of line

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Written By

Dave Paras

Software Developer

 India

This member has not yet provided a Biography. Assume it's interesting and varied, and probably something to do with programming.

Comments and Discussions

First PrevNext

Applicable To maitrey6841-Jul-13 23:03 maitrey684 1-Jul-13 23:03  Hi All, This trick can be applicable to all the editors where RegEx is provided. Love you Paras. M@itrey Patel Thnx Remya Viswan26-Feb-13 17:56 Remya Viswan 26-Feb-13 17:56  gr8.......Thnx...... My vote of 5 Renju Vinod12-Dec-12 19:39 Renju Vinod 12-Dec-12 19:39  Nice Including spaces Mika2-Oct-12 23:20 Mika 2-Oct-12 23:20  If you want to include lines with some spaces or tabs then the expression should be: ^:b*$\n My vote of 5 Koshy Panicker John16-Sep-12 20:11 Koshy Panicker John 16-Sep-12 20:11  My vote of 5 Reason for my vote of 5 i wish i read this an hour ago. i ha... A. Duman27-Oct-11 21:47 A. Duman 27-Oct-11 21:47  Reason for my vote of 5 i wish i read this an hour ago. i had to delete lots of lines manually Working. My vote of 5 Syed Shabeer25-Oct-11 2:05 Syed Shabeer 25-Oct-11 2:05  Working. My vote of 5 Reason for my vote of 5 Reason for my vote of 5 Good one RaviRanjanKr21-Jul-11 9:27 RaviRanjanKr 21-Jul-11 9:27  Reason for my vote of 5 Reason for my vote of 5 Good one Reason for my vote of 5 Very helpful Dave!!! Came to know ab... Jyothikarthik_N14-Jul-11 23:26 Jyothikarthik_N 14-Jul-11 23:26  Reason for my vote of 5 Very helpful Dave!!! Came to know about the regular expressions option only now!! Thanks! It is great,Thank you Eric Yin 201216-May-11 0:08 Eric Yin 2012 16-May-11 0:08  It is great,Thank you Reason for my vote of 4 good .. thank you for the informatio... ahsan sarfraz24-Jan-11 0:15 ahsan sarfraz 24-Jan-11 0:15  Reason for my vote of 4 good .. thank you for the information you shared. it is helpful. Reason for my vote of 5 Short and effective solution sign zala5-Nov-10 13:57 sign zala 5-Nov-10 13:57  Reason for my vote of 5 Short and effective solution Reason for my vote of 1 Your posted solution does not work i... Your Display Name Here5-Nov-10 4:26 Your Display Name Here 5-Nov-10 4:26  Reason for my vote of 1 Your posted solution does not work in VS2010; however, this one does... ^:b*$\n Reason for my vote of 4 It's good, helpful. NirdeshSaini27-Oct-10 4:07 NirdeshSaini 27-Oct-10 4:07  Reason for my vote of 4 It's good, helpful. Reason for my vote of 4 Small and Powerfull... Piyush_mca@ya... piyush2125-Oct-10 18:01 piyush21 25-Oct-10 18:01  Reason for my vote of 4 Small and Powerfull... Piyush_mca@yahoo.co.uk Reason for my vote of 1 What's new here ? Yet Another XCoder25-Oct-10 13:19 Yet Another XCoder 25-Oct-10 13:19  Reason for my vote of 1 What's new here ? Reason for my vote of 5 Works as promised GodOnlyKnows25-Oct-10 11:09 GodOnlyKnows 25-Oct-10 11:09  Reason for my vote of 5 Works as promised Reason for my vote of 5 Worked great bjreed22-Oct-10 7:51 bjreed 22-Oct-10 7:51  Reason for my vote of 5 Worked great Reason for my vote of 5 Good Job barsham19-Oct-10 16:53 barsham 19-Oct-10 16:53  Reason for my vote of 5 Good Job Reason for my vote of 1 Give Like this Tips karthikvadugan19-Oct-10 2:34 karthikvadugan 19-Oct-10 2:34  Reason for my vote of 1 Give Like this Tips Reason for my vote of 5 A very useful regular expression tha... dannielley2k118-Oct-10 21:56 dannielley2k1 18-Oct-10 21:56  Reason for my vote of 5 A very useful regular expression that I wasn't aware of previously Reason for my vote of 5 To be clear: do not type the quotes ... Emile van Gerwen18-Oct-10 21:31 Emile van Gerwen 18-Oct-10 21:31  Reason for my vote of 5 To be clear: do not type the quotes in the regex. Great tip. Reason for my vote of 5 Basic but powerfull SohelElite18-Oct-10 20:44 SohelElite 18-Oct-10 20:44  Reason for my vote of 5 Basic but powerfull Reason for my vote of 1 Poor Romano Scuri18-Oct-10 20:41 Romano Scuri 18-Oct-10 20:41  Reason for my vote of 1 Poor Reason for my vote of 5 Really Useful one thatraja16-Oct-10 21:32 thatraja 16-Oct-10 21:32  Reason for my vote of 5 Really Useful one

Last Visit: 31-Dec-99 18:00     Last Update: 16-Apr-24 5:14 Refresh 12 Next ᐅ

General    News    Suggestion    Question    Bug    Answer    Joke    Praise    Rant    Admin   

Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.