Stripping final lines without removing lines between paragraphs

[Robert Story]

In the following example, I'd like to trim all trailing returns/lines (lines 6 & 7) without removing any single lines between paragraphs (lines 2 & 4). With the understanding that the samples will be different each time and so I can't specify line numbers, what would you recommend?

[Mark Munz]

Create a custom cleaner and use a Regex Find and Replace action:

A couple notes: Options is set to s (default m). This makes ^ $ anchors for the entire text, not just lines.

\n+$ - matches one or more returns (\n) that are at the end of the text ($ anchor).

Because this will also remove the return at the end of the last paragraph, I added \n to put it back.

If you don't want the last paragraph to have a return, then you can leave the replace string blank.

On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 9:11 AM Robert Story <robert...@gmail.com> wrote:

In the following example, I'd like to trim all trailing returns/lines (lines 6 & 7) without removing any single lines between paragraphs (lines 2 & 4). With the understanding that the samples will be different each time and so I can't specify line numbers, what would you recommend?

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[Robert Story]

That works...thanks much! Ideally, I'd also like to strip the very last new line so that nothing trails the text (as this throws off vertical alignment when text is in object fields). This looks like something a negative lookahead would handle, but I've not yet figured out the syntax.

[Mark Munz]

If you want to remove all the returns at the end of the text, leave the replace field blank:

It shouldn't require a lookahead.

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