Replace to remove nextline

Question

For example, I have a text file:

bla bla "TEXT TEXT"
 ,BLA BLA TEXT

ANd I would like to make it

bla bla "TEXT TEXT",BLA BLA TEXT

What should I put here, to make this happen?

.replace("\n ", "")

UPDATE:

Sorry my fault that has not made it clear

bla bla "TEXT TEXT",BLA BLA TEXT
bla bla "TEXT TEXT",BLA BLA TEXT
bla bla "TEXT TEXT"
 ,BLA BLA TEXT
bla bla "TEXT TEXT",BLA BLA TEXT
bla bla "TEXT TEXT",BLA BLA TEXT
bla bla "TEXT TEXT",BLA BLA TEXT

to

bla bla "TEXT TEXT",BLA BLA TEXT
bla bla "TEXT TEXT",BLA BLA TEXT
bla bla "TEXT TEXT",BLA BLA TEXT
bla bla "TEXT TEXT",BLA BLA TEXT
bla bla "TEXT TEXT",BLA BLA TEXT
bla bla "TEXT TEXT",BLA BLA TEXT

Problem is it does not work. I'm not sure how to remove (next line + space and replace it with nothing) — Bobbby, May 13 '19 at 10:41
`.replace("\n ", "")` works fine. Post the code you tried and describe what you observed. — khelwood, May 13 '19 at 10:42
Strings are immutable, you need to assign the result of replace to a variable — Sayse, May 13 '19 at 10:44
Possible duplicate: [replace characters not working in python](https://stackoverflow.com/q/7208861/1324033) — Sayse, May 13 '19 at 10:46
@KunalMukherjee Looks really promising, but unfortunately does not work...(( — Bobbby, May 13 '19 at 11:03
@Sayse WHy this is offtopic? I clearly show what I have and what I need to get... And what I have tried.... ANy explanation? — Bobbby, May 13 '19 at 11:42
@Bobbby - Because its stating that something doesn't work without clearly demonstrating the issue. — Sayse, May 13 '19 at 12:02

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 13 '19 at 10:42

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I recommend using re.sub here:

input = """bla bla \"TEXT TEXT\"
           ,BLA BLA TEXT"""
output = re.sub(r'\n\s*', '', input)

This would let you remove newlines followed by any amount of following whitespace.

For your current approach, it should work, but the issue is that you need to assign the result back to another string, e.g.

output = input.replace("\n ", "")

answered May 13 '19 at 10:42

Tim Biegeleisen

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re.sub(r'\n ,', '', input) – Bobbby May 13 '19 at 11:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 13 '19 at 10:44

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Use .replace("\n", "")

You had a trailing white-space after \n

Commenting is hard for newcomers.

answered May 13 '19 at 10:44

iAmTryingOK

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Actually, if you look at the expected output it seems the OP wants the space after `\n`. – Tim Biegeleisen May 13 '19 at 10:45
weird, am I misreading it? It seems the desired output is `TEXT",BLA` from what was originally `TEXT" ,BLA` – iAmTryingOK May 13 '19 at 10:48
@bobbby : Have you given this a try? – iAmTryingOK May 13 '19 at 11:28

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 13 '19 at 10:55

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input = """ bla bla \"TEXT TEXT\" ,BLA BLA TEXT \n bla bla \"TEXT TEXT\" ,BLA BLA TEXT \n bla bla "TEXT TEXT" \n  ,BLA BLA TEXT \n bla bla \"TEXT TEXT\" ,BLA BLA TEXT """
print (input)
print ("-------------------")
print (input.replace("\n  ,", ","))

output:

 bla bla "TEXT TEXT" ,BLA BLA TEXT 
 bla bla "TEXT TEXT" ,BLA BLA TEXT 
 bla bla "TEXT TEXT" 
  ,BLA BLA TEXT 
 bla bla "TEXT TEXT" ,BLA BLA TEXT 
-------------------
 bla bla "TEXT TEXT" ,BLA BLA TEXT 
 bla bla "TEXT TEXT" ,BLA BLA TEXT 
 bla bla "TEXT TEXT" ,BLA BLA TEXT 
 bla bla "TEXT TEXT" ,BLA BLA TEXT

answered May 13 '19 at 10:55

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Looks logical and correct, but do not work – Bobbby May 13 '19 at 10:58
can you put your text that you are printing, something like : input = """ bla bla \"TEXT TEXT\" ,BLA BLA TEXT \n bla bla \"TEXT TEXT\" ,BLA BLA TEXT \n bla bla "TEXT TEXT" \n ,BLA BLA TEXT \n bla bla \"TEXT TEXT\" ,BLA BLA TEXT """ @Bobbby – ncica May 13 '19 at 11:00
This text is coming from API, and because fo some but it prints sometimes bugged lines and I need to repalce them, but do not work at all... have no idea how to fix it. – Bobbby May 13 '19 at 11:02

Replace to remove nextline

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