When I search for \s\s+ to replace with “ “, lines in column 1 and 2 get concatenated, unless text line in column 1 ends in punctuation mark. Please provide expression to normalize whitespaces w/o losing multi-column data structure.
That's because the file is TAB
-separated, and \s
includes TAB
s. If you are interested in only spaces, please use +
or {2,}
instead.