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visual studio 2015 environment replacing characters (regex)
i have inherited some VB.Net code...
there are explicit line number labels in the code...
the problem is that the line they are supposed to be associated with is on the next line ...
so it looks like this
1350:
Slots = Slots +1
when it should look like this
1350: Slots = Slots +1
so i need to find all ....: that have N spaces followed by a CRLF
and replace it with ....:
with nothing after the :
i have looked at using the regular expression stuff.. and have found some things that find blank lines.. but these lines are not blank....
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----the pattern i am looking for .... i believe... is a colon followed by a newline
i put in \n it finds the end of every line
i put in [:] it finds every colon
but i put in [:]\n... and it doesn't find anything
TIA
there are explicit line number labels in the code...
the problem is that the line they are supposed to be associated with is on the next line ...
so it looks like this
1350:
Slots = Slots +1
when it should look like this
1350: Slots = Slots +1
so i need to find all ....: that have N spaces followed by a CRLF
and replace it with ....:
with nothing after the :
i have looked at using the regular expression stuff.. and have found some things that find blank lines.. but these lines are not blank....
edit: --------------------------
----the pattern i am looking for .... i believe... is a colon followed by a newline
i put in \n it finds the end of every line
i put in [:] it finds every colon
but i put in [:]\n... and it doesn't find anything
TIA
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[:] literal colon
\s*any number 0 to ... of white space
\n