shorten it up

[Thu]

I have a document but there are many carriage returns in each paragraph
I'd like to delete some of them for the paragraph to be shorter

For example if there are N carriage returns then I'd like to delete N-1 starting from the second \n

Any help is appriciated.

[dglienna]

Use .Replace() to change all 3 <ret>'s into 2 for ALL occurences

Then you will have all single space, except when there were more than 3

Then, do the same thing to replace a 2 <ret>'s into 1 for single spaced

[mckee.kyle]

I used a regular expression to find all occurences of 3 or more consecutive returns and replace it with only two returns.

            //I'm pulling the start text out of a textbox.
            string startText = textBox1.Text;

            //This regular expression matches 3 or more line returns.
            Regex MultipleLineReturns = new Regex(@"(\r\n){3,}");

            //Replace all occurrences of 3 or more line returns with 2 line returns.
            //And wing it back in the text box.
            textBox1.Text = MultipleLineReturns.Replace(startText, "\r\n\r\n");

That will turn this:

One return
Two Returns

Three Returns


Four Returns



End

Into this:

One return
Two Returns

Three Returns

Four Returns

End

Hope that helps.