How to remove line endings on multiple lines in visual studio 2012 - visual-studio-2012

In the visual studio 2012 editor, I don't need to remove entire or multiple blank lines as all of the other stuff I could search on S/O is concerned with. I want to select multiple lines of aspx markup (usually from 2 to 10 or so) and remove the line endings on multiple lines of source code so that you end up with everything that was in the selected lines on one line. A small example of what I want to do is:
BEFORE source code:
[dx:GridViewTextColumn ID="Inactive"
Width="50"]
[/dx:GridViewTextColumn]
AFTER:
[dx:GridViewTextColumn ID="Inactive" Width="50"][/dx:GridViewTextColumn]
(replace the "[" chars above with "<" chars, and "]" with ">" chars, I entered it that way just to get it to display somewhat properly here)
It seems like this should be pretty simple, but I have tried various search/replace and regex values that are talked about in the many articles that talk about removing entire blank lines, but can't get anything to work. A little help? :)
** 2014-02-06 at 2306 hrs update:
Still trying, but this gets me really close:
In Visual Studio 2012 ide.
Working in an aspx file with its xml markup.
Do Ctrl-H to do a string search/replace on a selected stretch of xml (from start to finish of a particular well-formed tag, which may or may not contain subtags, but each tag is on a separate line).
Specify the following in the from textbox:
\s{2,}
Specify one blank space in the to textbox.
For the first example I gave, the result would be:
[dx:GridViewTextColumn ID="Inactive" Width="50"] [/dx:GridViewTextColumn]
Note the single blank space between the separate tags (after the first ']' character and before the second '[' character) . If I could figure out how to not have that space in the result it would be perfect.
** 2014-02-06 at 2322 hrs update:
Oh duh. Otay, I think I got it, the from textbox value is the same, but for the to textbox value, instead of a single space, just have nothing. That seems to work for my specific use case (selecting a certain amount of xml within aspx markup and making it all be on a single line with no extraneous blank spaces). Yay!

In the VS2012 ide, Ctrl-H dialog, specify regex, then in the from textbox put:
\s{2,}
and in the to textbox put nothing.
Execute on whatever amount of xml that you have selected (from the beginning tag less-than character to its matching ending tag greater-than character, along with any/all subtags in between, over any number of lines of source code).
What you have selected will be condensed to one line of source code without any extraneous blank spaces present.
This seems to work for the xml that is in .NET aspx markup (what I specifically needed); not guaranteed to work anywhere else.

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It seems impossible to find a very simple working example for an RTF numbered list that looks like this:
1. The first line
2. The second line
I tried to make a small sample by using Word but they produce a lot of garbage. Can anyone help out?
Somewhere I got this, but it's not working, only the first line is bulleted, more lines get appended to the first line.
\pard{\pntext\f0 1.\tab}\*\pn\pnlvlbody\pnf0\pnindent0\pnstart1\pndec{\pntxta.}}\fi-360\li480\sa50\sl0\slmult1 The first line
(My target is the RTF Edit box of Windows, so I'm not all concerned about backwards compatibility with older RTF readers like Word 6 which do not understand numbered lists and need fallback text formatted to look list numbers.)
The following works for me with the Windows RichTextBox control and Word version 1803:
{\rtf1
\pard{\pntext\f0 1.\tab}\*\pn\pnlvlbody\pnf0\pnindent0\pnstart1\pndec{\pntxta.}
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How to remove invisible line break character

I have big data at excel, and some cells contains html codes. These cells have line breaks in them. I tried to replace line breaks (Alt+010, \n) but excel said there is no char like this.
When I copied cell to notepad, there is no line break.
When I copied from notepad to phpmyadmin sql area or textpad, I see line breaks again.
There are notepad, textpad and phpmyadmin sql area screenshots below. How can I remove these invisible line breaks?
This could be a problem with Carriage Return + Line Feed. When you press Alt+Enter in Excel it only incerts a Line Feed. But if you somehow get both Carriage Return + Line Feed in a cell that could leed to additional problems. See this page for solutions:
https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/2013/12/03/remove-carriage-returns-excel/
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Line breaks - do you mean the line breaks you could introduce in Excel with ALT+ENTER?
Then you could use Search / Replace option in Excel without need to copy your content to another tool:
Open it and introduce in Search for CTRL+J (you will receive a point displayed in the search field).
In Replace you could introduce what you want (nothing, a space, a semicolon, ...).
Select Replace all.
EDIT:
I've tested it by copying html from textpad to one cell using clipboard. With this the method described by me is not working.
But there is another solution: Open replace command, for "search string" introduce ALT-Key (keep it pressed), then introduce by using the numeric key pad (on the right side of a "standard" keyboard) the tree digits 0 1 0 and finally release ALT-Key (you will see a point displayed in the search field). Choose as replacement string what you want and choose replace all.
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Vim real tab characters start at column 8- I can't move all the way left

I'm using real tab characters in my files, and when whitespace characters are set to invisible (which it is by default), then the farthest left I can go is column 8. But if I make whitespace visible (:set list!) then it still says that I'm at column 8, but it at least shows my cursor all the way to the left. What could be causing this?
This is not a matter of correct or incorrect. Vim just chooses to put the (single cell) cursor on the last cell of the Tab, and the jumping forward movement probably makes Tabs easier to detect, so most people like that behavior. Only with :set list, where a Tab is represented by a start and follow-up characters does this change.
If you really can't get used to it, the only workaround (short of modifying Vim's source code directly) is:
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Visual Studio 2012 Express incorrect behavior of text cutting

Let me explain what I mean.
Example:
1) I am cutting some text on line 1 (or some count of lines)
2) I am deleting empty line 1, that remained after text cutting
3) I am trying to paste cutted text to other place, but all what I get is an empty string! WTF (Why this Fhappens)??
If I`ll do 3rd step before 2nd, I`ll get normal text pasting. But most of time I need to do 2nd step before 3rd.
Some of my coworkers get this bug too on Visual Studio Proffessional.
May be you had seen this bug too?
How are you deleting the empty line? If you're using CTRL-X or CTRL-Del, both of these commands will actually do a Cut command on the line.

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I have file which contain 18k lines of text which consists of links and rondom ID codes and looks like this:
"
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardNano
SC09661
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno
http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/1639172.pdf
SC09670
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno
SC09665
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoEthernetShield
SC09662
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoXbeeShield
CS23020
http://bcove.me/zypzpy2q
SC09147
http://cache.national.com/ds/LM/LM134.pdf
SC08546
http://cache.national.com/ds/LM/LM2574.pdf
SC08540
http://cache.national.com/ds/LM/LM2576.pdf
"
I need to remove from this text all those ID codes (SC08540,SC09662,...) and links which not ends with .pdf, I know its posible with Notepad++ and other programs, with Replace funkction, but I dont know how exacly should I do this. Maybe I could get help with this?
I have not found a way to do this in one go with Notepad++ but this should work:
Open the replace box (Search --> Replace...) and select Regular expression
Search for ^.*[^\.][^p][^d][^f]$
Make sure Replace with is empty
Replace All
Now you have a file with empty lines and the links you want. There are at least two ways to get rid of the empty lines:
Method 1: TextFX plugin
Select all text
TextFX --> TextFX Edit --> Delete blank lines
Method 2: Replace
Make sure the cursor is at the beginning of the document
Open the replace box (Search --> Replace...) and select Extended
Search for \n\r
Make sure Replace with is empty
Replace All

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