Re: [libreoffice-users] stripping crlf

On 1/3/2024 2:18 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 11:08 03/01/2024 -0500, Bill Drescher wrote:
> > I have a document that I copied from the original on the web 
> > (legally). Now I need to modify it using LO. The document has 
> > hard line breaks that I want to remove.
>
> The first thing to do is to understand what you are handling 
> here. Calling these "hard line breaks" (or, even worse, "crlf" 
> - as you have in your Subject header) is unhelpful, as what I 
> assume you have here is what in a word processor are *paragraph 
> breaks*.
>
> > Using the find and replace form I can not figure out how to 
> > indicate a line break.
>
> It's generally necessary to think in terms of the paragraphs 
> themselves, rather than breaks. (But perhaps not here ...)
>
> > With "Regular Expressions" selected /n, /n/lf fail.
>
> Those would need to be backslashes, not slashes. And \n matches 
> a line break, not the paragraph breaks that I believe you have 
> here.
>
> > What can I use to replace the line break with a space?
>
> Just "$" (no quotes), it seems.
>
> Another thought: consider using Paste Special (instead of 
> ordinary Paste) and "Unformatted text" when inserting text from 
> elsewhere. This avoids some problems.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker


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Bill Drescher
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