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How do I replace the string "\r\n" with the same characters. Example:

Hello World.\r\nHello World.

replaced with:

Hello World.
Hello World.
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Press CTRL-h and the Replace dialog will open. Type "\\r\\n" in "Find what" and "\r\n" in "Replace with". Finally, select the extended search mode and click "Replace All".

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works in Programmer's notepad as well. Select "Allow backslash expressions" and do the same – Peter Munnings Jul 3 '12 at 19:05
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In the find screen, on the replace tab choose extended search.
In the find text box put \\r\\n, and in the replace text box put \r\n.

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Does this actually work, or do you need to do escaping? – David Pearce Sep 17 '09 at 14:21
I had escaping, but I had to double escape it for it to show up right here (ie \\\\r\\\\n instead of \\r\\n). – C. Ross Sep 17 '09 at 14:55
So did you just now have to quadruple escape that in the comment? ^^^^^^^ – hyperslug Sep 17 '09 at 15:31
No thankfully it doesn't try to interpret comments ... – C. Ross Sep 18 '09 at 14:55
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Copy a newline and use the Search and Replace function to replace \r\n with the newline. The newline character will show up as an empty box.

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I couldn't get this to work earlier. – C. Ross Sep 17 '09 at 14:56

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