Replace Certain Line Breaks with Equivalent of Pressing delete key on Keyboard NotePad++ Regex

Question

Im using Notepad++ Find and replace and I have regex that looks for [^|]\r which will find the end of the line that starts with 8778.

8778|44523|0||TENNESSEE|ADMINISTRATION||ROLL 169 BATCH 8|1947-09-22|0|OnBase 
See Also 15990TT|

I want to basically merge that line with the one below it, so it becomes this:

8778|44523|0||TENNESSEE|ADMINISTRATION||ROLL 169 BATCH 8|1947-09-22|0|OnBase See Also 15990TT|

Ive tried the replace being a blank space, but its grabbing the last character on that line (an e in this case) and replacing that with a space, so its making it

8778|44523|0||TENNESSEE|ADMINISTRATION||ROLL 169 BATCH 8|1947-09-22|0|OnBas  
See Also 15990TT|

Is there any way to make it essentially merge the two lines?

Answer 1

\r only matches a carriage return symbol, to match a line break, you need \R that matches any line break sequence.

To keep a part of a pattern after replacement, capture that part with parentheses, and then use a backreference to that group.

So you may use

([^|\r])\R

Replace with $1. Or with $1 if you need to append a space.

Details

• ([^|\r]) - Capturing group 1 ($1 is the backreference that refers to the group value from the replacement pattern): any char other than | and CR
• \R - any line break char sequence, LF, CR or CRLF.

See the regex demo and the Notepad++ demo with settings: