Removing new lines from a text file in Notepad++

Question

I need to replace all the strings that look like this:

<\name>

for a Tab

name can be anything from 3 to 15 characters long

I've managed to do it by doing search <\.*> replace with \t

Now I need to replace any new lines with a single Tab i.e. remove the new line. For some reason Ultraedit doesn't recognise the new line in the search box. I've used \r and \n, but none of them works.

This is an example of the file, after the search and replace:

               1    
             101    
           54651    
          150756    
             282    
             506    
             398    
            2759    
         59.62  
           35737    
              65    

I want to get all that in a single line separated by tabs.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

As you're using Notepad++ I'll assume you're on Windows.

This means the text files you're using were likely created on a DOS type system (including Windows...) and therefore terminate lines with \r\n rather than a single \n like you might find on a UNIX system.

Try searching for that instead.