html- replace all line breaks with \n

ConsultClifford · 05-04-2004 11:43AM #1

anyone know any utility/software that will replace all line breaks with \n for me please????

tricky D · 05-04-2004 11:58AM

textpad allows you to save text files in Mac (\r), Unix (\n) or Windows (\r\n) formats
http://www.textpad.com/
hth
\r

buddy · 05-04-2004 02:30PM

Aren't line breaks? <br> or <br />

Philbert · 05-04-2004 03:00PM

Not too sure if this is what youre looking for but if a simple "find and replace" utility will do the job then this is what you need.

Zaltais · 05-04-2004 03:02PM

I'm assuming the original poster actually want's to change end of lines to a literal '\n' (as in the printed characters rather than 'a line break'

It's pish easy to do with a regex - you could do it a number of ways - my personal preference would be a dirty little perl script, but you could also do it in PHP, ASP, or even JavaScript - as for a 'proggie' that'll do it - you want a find and replace program that supports regex's - Dreamweaver's Find and Replace function actually has pretty good regex support, as does EditPlus. Don't know about TextPad but I'm sure it does too.

tricky D · 05-04-2004 03:35PM

Textpad does it at the save dialog. DW and EP2 do it as at kinda preference level which is also nice.
Also if it is just a bare bones prog you're seeking as Zaltais mentions, then the textpad site has 3 fairly neat dos batchers which only do these conversions
Convert = 3 programs to batch convert files between DOS, MAC and UNIX. For example, type "ToUnix *.HTML" to convert all your DOS & MAC files before uploading them to your UNIX web server. (56KB)
page: http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/index.html]

ConsultClifford · 05-04-2004 06:51PM

Thanks all,
Tnx Zaltais

Syth · 05-04-2004 08:48PM

sed 's/<\/*[Bb][Rr]>/\\n/g' filename

man I love Un*x, so many handy programmes

Dun · 05-04-2004 09:03PM

Or if you're working in windows and you've Word installed, and don't want to install anything else, you can use it's Replace (ctrl+h) function (Find: ^p Replace: \n).

SantaHoe · 06-04-2004 12:16AM

Originally posted by Dun
Or if you're working in windows and you've Word installed, and don't want to install anything else, you can use it's Replace (ctrl+h) function (Find: ^p Replace: \n).

Actually I hadn't noticed it until now, but plain ol' notepad also has a find & replace feature (win2k).

Dun · 06-04-2004 02:07AM

Yeah, it's handy, but I don't know any (easy) way of replacing the likes of carriage returns with it.

html- replace all line breaks with \n

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