WinEdt ⇒ Removing text via search and replace

[cbkschroeder]

Hello,

Off the top, I admit I haven't spent much time working with the advanced search and replace functionality of Winedt 5.4 that I'm using at the moment. Before I invest a great deal of time in it, I was wondering if somebody might have some suggestions as to the following:

Let's say I have:

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\begin{figure}
   \caption{some text}
   \bigskip\bigskip
   \includegraphics{stuff}
\end{figure}

A simple search and replace will allow me to remove the \bigskip\bigskip but leave an empty line in its place. My question is: how do I remove the \bigskip\bigskip and not have the empty line remain?

Any thoughts for what must be a rudimentary question are much appreciated.

Thank you.

[frabjous]

I don’t use WinEDT, or even Windows for that matter, but assuming it's standard regular expressions, you’d search for \s*\\bigskip\\bigskip\n, where '\s*' is the code for any amount of whitespace, '\\' is the code for '\', and '\n' is the code for a linefeed. Replace with \n for a single linefeed.

If it’s not using standard regular expressions, I have no clue.

[cbkschroeder]

I'll give that a spin; thank you.

[cbkschroeder]

Yeah, entering "\n" searches for just that; not a linefeed, unfortunately.