使用正则表达式查找并替换文本文件

Question

I have a few hundred .docx documents that I'm converting to markdown. I'm using textutil to convert the .docx to html and Pandoc to convert the html to Markdown.

The problem I have is that original .docx files contain dropcaps. In the text file I now have the first letter (which was the dropcap) separated from its paragraph by a line break. it looks like this:

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I'm using a mac (10.6.8) and textmate. Textmate allows a find and replace using regular expressions.

How is it possible to remove the line break and rejoin the separated letter with the rest of its paragraph?

Answer 1

For the search, try this:

^([A-Z])[\r\n]+(\w+)\b

For the replace:

$1$2