Find and replace - Add carriage return OR Newline

Question

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

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Make sure  Use  Regular expressions  is selected in the Find and Replace dialog     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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You can use Multiline Search and Replace in Visual Studio macro which provides nice GUI for the task

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You can also try  x0d x0a in the  Replace with  box with  Use regular Expression  box checked to get carriage return   line feed using Visual Studio Find Replace   Using  n  line feed  is the same as  x0a

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If you want to avoid the hassle of escaping the special characters in your search and replacement string when using regular expressions  do the following steps    Search for your original string  and replace it with  UniqueString42   with regular expressions off  Search for  UniqueString42  and replace it with  UniqueString42 nUniqueString1337   with regular expressions on Search for  UniqueString42  and replace it with the first line of your replacement  often your original string   with regular expressions off  Search for  UniqueString42  and replace it with the second line of your replacement  with regular expressions off    Note that even if you want to manually pich matches for the first search and replace  you can safely use  replace all  for the three last steps   Example  For example  if you want to replace this   public IFoo SomeField   get   return this SomeField        with that   public IFoo Foo   get   return this MyFoo      public IBar Bar   get   return this MyBar        You would do the following substitutions    public IFoo SomeField   get   return this SomeField        XOXOXOXO  regex off   XOXOXOXO   XOXOXOXO nHUHUHUHU  regex on   XOXOXOXO   public IFoo Foo   get   return this MyFoo       regex off   HUHUHUHU   public IFoo Bar   get   return this MyBar       regex off

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Just a minor word of warning     a lot of environments use  or need   quot  r n quot  and not just  quot  n quot    I ran into an issue with Visual Studio not matching my regex string at the end of the line because I left off the  quot  r quot  of  quot  r n quot   so my string couldn t match with a missing invisible character  So  if you are doing a find  or a replace  consider the  quot  r quot   For a little more detail on  quot  r quot  and  quot  n quot   see   https   stackoverflow com a 3451192 4427457

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If you set  Use regular expressions  flag then  n would be translated   But keep in mind that you would have to modify you search term to be regexp friendly   In your case it should be escaped like this           no quotes

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