Remove Tabs and Trailing Blanks

Before wrapping the lines, remove trailing blanks, to make other line comparisons work better.  

• One way to do this is in Notepad++.

  • Open in Notepad++

  • Use  the Replace command, with "Regular Expressions" on

  • Find:   [ *$]  (Leave off the square brackets, and make sure there is a Space before the *)

  • Replace with:  []   (nothing)

• This is a good time to also check for tabs that shouldn't be there.

  • Check if there are tabs between the SFM and the contents: Do Find/Replace in Notepad++ with these values (omit the quote marks, and note the space after the \1 in the Replace string:

    • Find: "(^\\[^ ]+)\t+"

    • Replace: "\1 "

  • Check if there are any trailing tabs:

    • Find:  [\t*$]

    • Replace: (nothing)