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I can able to do the find and replace for a single file by putting ^\s*$\n and replacing it with nothing. But Visual Studio Code is not allowing the same for multiple files.

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How can I do this in Visual Studio Code or Any other faster solution? BTW I am doing it on node.js project.

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  • In the "files to include/exclude" field put in *.* or the files you want to include. Commented Apr 14, 2018 at 7:11
  • No, by default it include all files. Commented Apr 14, 2018 at 7:17
  • I am able to perform non '\n' replace on multiple files. Commented Apr 14, 2018 at 7:18
  • Try using \\n instead of \n... see: stackoverflow.com/a/43483515/499581 Commented Apr 14, 2018 at 7:27
  • ^\s*$\\n not working. It is considering it as slash + n string Commented Apr 14, 2018 at 7:28

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You can try this with [\n\r] instead of \n

^\s*$[\n\r]

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Btw, it seems ^\s*$ finds greatly more empty lines than above.

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Thanks a lot :-) this worked. I hope VS Code will add such option before we have to come up with complicated solution ;)
Sorry,It looks like your syntax was able to find all those lines but when I am replacing it, it doesn't work. Did you tried removing the empty lines with same syntax in multiple files?
It looks like a bug in VS Code. Can you please check on your side. Will be great help :-) for future projects as well.
Sorry to say that find & replace in files in vscode seems not working properly in some regex pattern at this time and works some differently from find for a file. I recommend using other text editors(e.g. notepad++, etc) for finding & replacing in multiple files with regex

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