Visual Studio has ability to delete empty lines in replace operation using regular expressions.
1.Click Ctrl-G
2. Tick "Use Regular Expressions"
3. In Find specify ^$\n
4. In Replace box delete everything.
5 Click "Replace All"
All empty lines will be deleted.
Regular expression for empty line consist of
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Beginning of line
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^
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End of line
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$
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Note that normally in Windows an end of line indicated by 2 characters
CRLF - Carriage Return (
CR,
ASCII 13, \r) Line Feed (
LF,
ASCII 10, \n).