How to Remove Unnecessary Lines Between Code

I get really annoyed when there’s unnecessary lines in code that I’m editing.  If you’re like me you may want to know a useful way to take them out.  Easily.  Well check this out, here’s we will be using Dreamweaver CS4′s find-and-Replace tool to remove unnecessary blank lines between your code.   This is particularly helpful when there are a ton a blank lines in between each bit of your code.

How to Remove Unnecessary Lines Between Code

1. Open Dreamweaver (I am using CS4 for this tutorial).

2. Next, what you’re going to want to do (and hopefully already have… is a piece of code (html, css, php, etc.) with a lot of lines that you want to replace.

3. Hit CTRL-F to open the Find-and-Replace tool

4. Click the “use regular expression” checkbox

5. Ensure the Search drop-down shows “Search Source Code“

6. Copy-and-Paste ‘[\r\n]{2,}’ in the Find textarea (please notice the brackets have been taken out of the example shown here!”

7.  Copy-and-Paste “\n” in the Replace text box.

8. Click the”Find Next” or “Find All” just to be sure this is working properly before you go straight into the “Replace All” Feature.

Note: Dreamweaver is the IDE I am using for this tutorial.  Other programs, such as Visual Studio have similar find-and-replace tools and most likely will work the same in this usage.

Hope this helped everyone, I know it helps me often.  FYI I got this information from the great forums over at digital point here

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