Removing empty lines or blank lines

[jpinnix]

Several tools I use like Clean Text have actions that they refer to as “removing empty lines”, so that is what I was searching for here and in the Action Directory.

However, I did stumble across two actions that were for removing “blank lines.” Figured I would post here in case someone else doesn’t think of the alternative

Single action: Remove blank lines

3 in 1: Draft Modifier

• Remove Blank Lines
• Remove Duplicate Lines
• Split Draft at Cursor

[sylumer]

For what it’s worth, the ThoughtAsylum - Writing action group has the following actions in it that deal with lines that could be described as “empty”.

TAD-Remove Blank Lines

Remove any blank lines from the draft. Blank lines may have no content or they may have whitespace only.

TAD-Remove Empty Lines

Remove any empty lines from the draft. Empty lines may have no content, whitespace counts as content.

TAD-Compress Spaces and Lines

Compress multiple spaces, blank lines and empty lines.

• Each of the actions can be found in the “Whitespace Removal” action of the action group.
• Further details for the action group are available on this page.
• See also draft.TA_removeBlankLines() and draft.TA_removeEmptyLines().

[agiletortoise]

We’re not still supposed to be socially distancing our lines?

[thecatfix]

Oh yeah…loving this one