Find CRLF in Notepad

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How can I find replace all CR LF characters in Notepad     I am looking for something equivalent to the  p special character in Microsoft Word

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To find any kind of a line break sequence use the following regex construct    R   To find and select consecutive line break sequences  add   after  R   R    Make sure you turn on Regular expression mode     It matches    U 000DU 000A -CRLF  sequence U 000A - LINE FEED  LF U 000B - LINE TABULATION  VT U 000C - FORM FEED  FF U 000D - CARRIAGE RETURN  CR U 0085 - NEXT LINE  NEL U 2028 - LINE SEPARATOR U 2029 - PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR

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It appears that this is a FAQ  and the resolution offered is   Simple search  Ctrl H  without regexp You can turn on View Show End of Line or view Show All  and select the now visible newline characters  Then when you start the command some characters matching the newline character will be pasted into the search field  Matches will be replaced by the replace string  unlike in regex mode  Note 1  If you select them with the mouse  start just before them and drag to the start of the next line  Dragging to the end of the line won t work  Note 2  You can t copy and paste them into the field yourself  Advanced search  Ctrl R  without regexp Ctrl M will insert something that matches newlines  They will be replaced by the replace string

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Use the advanced search option  Ctrl   R  and use the keyboard shortcut for CRLF  Ctrl   M  to insert a carriage return

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Assuming it has a  regular expressions  search  look for  r n   I prefer  r  n  because some files don t use carriage returns   EDIT  Thanks for the feedback  whoever voted this down   I have learned that    well  nothing  because you provided no feedback   Why is this wrong

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I ve not had much luck with  r n regular expressions from the find replace window   However  this works in Notepad   v4 1 2    Use the  View   Show end of line  menu to enable display of end of line characters   Carriage return line feeds should show up as a single shaded CRLF  character    Select one of the CRLF  characters   put the cursor just in front of one  hold down the SHIFT key  and then pressing the RIGHT CURSOR key once   Copy the CRLF character to the clipboard  Make sure that you don t have the find or find replace dialog open  Open the find replace dialog  The  Find what  field shows the contents of the clipboard  in this case the CRLF character - which shows up as 2  box characters   presumably it s an unprintable character   Ensure that the  Regular expression  option is OFF    Now you should be able to count  find  or replace as desired

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Image with CRLF      Image without CRLF

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In 2013  v6 13 or later  use   Menu Edit   EOL Conversion   Windows Format

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If you need to do a complex regexp replacement including  r n  you can workaround the limitation by a three-step approach    Replace all  r n by a tag  let s say  GO    Check  Extended   replace  r n by  GO  Perform your regexp  example removing multiline ICON     from an html bookmarks   Check regexp  replace ICON         gt  by  gt  Put back  r n   Check  Extended   replace  GO  by  r n

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It appears that this is a FAQ  and the resolution offered is   Simple search  Ctrl H  without regexp You can turn on View Show End of Line or view Show All  and select the now visible newline characters  Then when you start the command some characters matching the newline character will be pasted into the search field  Matches will be replaced by the replace string  unlike in regex mode  Note 1  If you select them with the mouse  start just before them and drag to the start of the next line  Dragging to the end of the line won t work  Note 2  You can t copy and paste them into the field yourself  Advanced search  Ctrl R  without regexp Ctrl M will insert something that matches newlines  They will be replaced by the replace string

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Maybe you can use TextFX plugins  In TextFX  go to textfx edit   delete blank lines

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Make this setting  Menu-  View-  Show Symbol-  uncheck Show End of the Line

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Just do a  r with a find and replace with a blank in the replace field so everything goes up to one line  Then do a find and replace  in my case by semi colon  and replace with   n     -T amp C

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r n   should work too  Update March  26th 2012  release date of Notepad   6 0   OMG  it actually does work now         Original answer 2008  Notepad   4 x  - 2009-2010-2011  Notepad   5 x   Actually no  it does not seem to work with regexp     But if you have Notepad   5 x  you can use the  extended  search mode and look for  r n  That does find all your CRLF    I realize this is the same answer than the others  but again   extended mode  is only available with Notepad   4 9  5 x and more     Since April 2009  you have a wiki article on the Notepad   site on this topic   How To Replace Line Ends  thus changing the line layout    mentioned by georgiecasey in his her answer below   Some relevant extracts includes the following search processes      Simple search  Ctrl F   Search Mode   Normal      You can select an EOL in the editing window           Just move the cursor to the end of the line  and type Shift Right Arrow     or  to select EOL with the mouse  start just at the line end and drag to the start of the next line  dragging to the right of the EOL won t work    You can manually copy the EOL and paste it into the field for Unix files  LF-only           Simple search  Ctrl F   Search Mode   Extended      The  Extended  option shows  n and  r as characters that could be matched    As with the Normal search mode  Notepad   is looking for the exact character    Searching for  r in a UNIX-format file will not find anything  but searching for  n will  Similarly  a Macintosh-format file will contain  r but not  n       Simple search  Ctrl F   Search Mode   Regular expression      Regular expressions use the characters   and   to anchor the match string to the beginning or end of the line  For instance  searching for return   will find occurrences of  return   that occur with no subsequent text on that same line  The anchor characters work identically in all file formats    The     dot metacharacter does not match line endings        Tested in Notepad   5 8 5   a regular expression search with an explicit  r or  n does not work  contrary to the Scintilla documentation     Neither does a search on an explicit  pasted  LF  or on the  invisible  EOL characters placed in the field when an EOL is selected    Advanced search  Ctrl R  without regexp      Ctrl M will insert something that matches newlines  They will be replaced by the replace string    I recommend this method as the most reliable  unless you really need to use regex    As an example  to remove every second newline in a double spaced file  enter Ctrl M twice in the search string box  and once in the replace string box       Advanced search  Ctrl R  with Regexp       Neither Ctrl M    nor  r n are matched       The same wiki also mentions the Hex editor alternative         Type the new string at the beginning of the document     Then select to view the document in Hex mode      Select one of the new lines and hit Ctrl H     While you have the Replace dialog box up  select on the background the new replacement string and Ctrl C copy it to paste it in the Replace with text input     Then Replace or Replace All as you wish           Note  the character selected for new line usually appears as 0a    It may have a different value if the file is in Windows Format  In that case you can always go to Edit - gt  EOL Conversion - gt  Convert to Unix Format  and after the replacement switch it back and Edit - gt  EOL Conversion - gt  Convert to Windows Format

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Go to View--  Show symbol-- Show all character                            Its worked for me

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I opened the file in Notepad   and did a replacement in a few steps    Replace all   r n  with    r n  Replace all     r n  with   r n  Replace all    r n  with       This puts all the breaks where they should be and removes those that are breaking up the file   It worked for me

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To change a document of separate lines into a single line  with each line forming one entry in a comma separated list   ctrl f to open the search replacer  Click the  quot Replace quot  tab  Fill the  quot Find what quot  entry with  quot  r n quot   Fill the  quot Replace with quot  entry with  quot   quot  or  quot    quot   depending on preference   Un-check the  quot Match whole word quot  checkbox  the important bit that eludes logic   Check the  quot Extended quot  radio button  Click the  quot Replace all quot  button   These steps turn e g   foo bar bar baz baz foo  into   foo bar bar baz baz foo  or   depending on preference   foo bar  bar baz  baz foo

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I was totally unable to do this in NP v6 9  I found it easy enough on Msoft Word  2K    Open the doc  go to edit- replace   Then in the bottom of the search box  click  more  then find the  Special  button and they have several things for you  For Dos style  I used the  paragraph  one  This is a cr lf pair in windows land

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The way I found it to work is by using the Replace function  and using   n   with the  Extended  mode   I m using version 5 8 5

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On the Replace dialog  you want to set the search mode to  Extended    Normal or Regular Expression modes wont work   Then just find   r n    or just  n for unix files or just  r for mac format files   and set the replace to whatever you want

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