Visual Studio Code - delete all blank lines - regex

Question

I spent some time trying to figure out how to delete all blank lines in Visual Studio Code and I can\'t get it working. Anybody knows how to do it please?

If I search fo

Answer 1

At My case. kobi7 solution (\r?\n){2,} only worked for me, I had to run it again with small modification to make it work for single lines (just changed 2 to 1)

^(\r?\n){1,}

Answer 2

There is my version for cleaning empty lines with white space:

find:    (?:\s*$(\r?\n)){2,}
replace: $1

Answer 3

Here's my regex, it catches all extra new lines and empty lines that contain only space,tabs etc

\n\s*\n

And I replace all matches with \n

Explanation

\n       : New Line
\s*      : Zero or more consecutive white space characters or new lines
\n       : Another New Line

P.S :Remember to choose the regex option in the search window!!