Find and replace - Add carriage return OR Newline

visual-studio replace carriage-return
Mantisimo picture Mantisimo · Dec 2, 2010 · Viewed 140.2k times · Source

In the case of following string to be parsed.

ford mustang,10,blue~~?bugatti veyron,13,black

I want to replace the ~~? with a carriage return

Replacing with \n just adds the string "\n"

How can this be done?

Answer

Martin picture Martin · Dec 2, 2010

Make sure "Use: Regular expressions" is selected in the Find and Replace dialog:

Find/Replace Dialog Use Regular expressions

Note that for Visual Studio 2010, this doesn't work in the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools' "Quick Find" extension (as of the July 2011 update); instead, you'll need to use the full Find and Replace dialog (use Ctrl+Shift+H, or Edit --> Find and Replace --> Replace in Files), and change the scope to "Current Document".

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