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Mike Henke
Mike Henke

Reputation: 864

eclipse search - regex finding start/end of file with carriage return

I would like to remove any line breaks/carriage returns at the start and end of files but eclipse doesn't seem to recognize $$ or ^^ for end/start of file. Anyone know how to do a regex with eclipse search?

sof ^^ Start of File
eof $$ End of File

Upvotes: 11

Views: 13542

Answers (2)

Bart Kiers
Bart Kiers

Reputation: 170257

It seems by default, the multi-line flag m is enabled in Eclipse, causing ^ and $ to match start- and end-of-lines. You can disable the m flag by adding (?-m) in front of your regex.

I just tested it, and it only removes line breaks at the start or end of the file:

(?-m)(^\s+|\s+$)

Upvotes: 14

Samir Talwar
Samir Talwar

Reputation: 14330

You can use \A to represent the start of the file, and \Z to represent the end of the file.

Upvotes: 17

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