RegEx - how to replace a carriage return

[franc]

Hallo

I am trying to replace with a Regular Expression some numbers with carriage return (also called paragraph breaks) to nothing but it aint working.
This is examplarily my text:

Blabla
1
blabla
blablablabla
2
blabla blabla
12
blabla
13
basdaf
asdfasd
14
asdfa

where I want to eliminate the numbers (these were page numbers, hardcoded ones) but also the carriage returns (such ones done with Return without Space).
I could easily find and replace with nothing the numbers, no problem, but then I have left some empty lines.
In normal RegEx I would go for the hex value, e.g.:
Search with Regex:

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\x0A

and combine it with the numbers, e.g.

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\x0A\d{1,2}

but this (\x0A) doesnt find the carriage returns on my Mac OS 10.11.6 with OO 4.1.5

So neither are working \n nor \x00A nor \x000A nor \x0D\x0A - I tried a lot.

I found in some post the $ (which is in normal RegEx just the line end, without any length!) but this is not helping, because I can not eliminate the carriage return, I can just find a line's end.

So how can I find and replace the real carriage return character with regex on Mac OS 10.11.6 and OO 4.1.5?

The digits I easily can find, but only not the carriage return.
The line break (with Space+Retrurn) I can find with \n

Thanks.

frank

PS.: I asked that in a german openoffice forum before and got there the hint to ask here.

[Zizi64]

The digits I easily can find, but only not the carriage return.
The line break (with Space+Retrurn) I can find with \n

You can find and replace the CR signs with the AltSearch extension.
https://extensions.libreoffice.org/exte ... for-writer
https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/pr ... -altsearch

But it not a good idea to replace ALL of the CR-s from a document, because the paragraphs have a character number limit...

[FJCC]

Does it work to eliminate the numbers and then search for empty paragraphs with ^$

[franc]

...
You can find and replace the CR signs with the AltSearch extension.
...

That is not working on my mac (on PC no problems), see attached Screenshot.

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But it not a good idea to replace ALL of the CR-s from a document, because the paragraphs have a character number limit...

No problem to replace two CRs with just one, my problem is, that there are one too much, so I have an empty line.

[Villeroy]

^[[:digit:]]+$ finds paragraphs that consist of digits.
Replace them with nothing and then replace the empty paragraphs ^$ with nothing.

[franc]

Thank.
But this is not possible as solution, because there are other empty paragraphs which are indeed wanted.
I need to replace in one go.

[Villeroy]

Apply correct spacings between paragraphs instead of blank paragraphs?

[franc]

Yes

[Villeroy]

Well, then remove all blank paragraphs and apply paragraph styles. Style "Text Body" for instance, includes some extra spacing.