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how to find a paragraph break (newline)



I would like to find any character, newline, and any character to
replace to the previous ($1) and next ($3) above.

I am trying this regex:

[A-Za-z]\n[A-Za-z]

result: "Search Key not Found" [grrr]

[A-Za-z]\\n[A-Za-z]

result: "Search Key not Found" [grrr]

[A-Za-z]$[A-Za-z]

result: "Search Key not Found" [grrr]

\n

result: "Search Key not Found" [grrr]

\r

result: found character r


Example text.

I have

foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
\n
\n
foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
\n
\n
\n
foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
\n
(...)

I would like

foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
\n
foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
\n
foofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoofoo\n
\n
(...)


My system:

Linux laia 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:01:41 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

openoffice.org1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-base1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-base-core1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-calc1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-common1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-core1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-draw1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-emailmerge1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-evolution1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-filter-binfilter1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-help-en-us1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-help-pt-br1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-impress1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-java-common1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-l10n-pt-br1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-math1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-officebean1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-report-builder-bin1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-style-galaxy1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-style-oxygen1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-style-tango1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us1:3.2.1-2
openoffice.org-writer1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2
openoffice.org-writer2latex1.0.2-1

Thank you


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