How to replace '|' in Notepad++

Question

I have too many records which ending as below :

en-US|||||

But i wanted them to be replace to new line let say

en-US

newline

Note text en and US are different in each records, the only item needed to be kept is "-". Please advise.

The only thing method i tried is replace with : \n. What do i have to input in "Find What : xx-xx||||" ?

amiregelz · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-14 10:30:59Z

up vote 6 down vote accepted

Press Ctrl+H (Find & Replace).
Use those settings:
- Search mode: Extended
- Find what: |||||
- Replace with: \n
Replace.

edited Sep 14 '12 at 10:30

amiregelz
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answered Sep 14 '12 at 6:27

Peter I
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swemon · Answer 2 · 2012-09-14 06:00:27Z

up vote 1 down vote

User regular expression to find [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]-[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]|||| and replace \n

in Notepad++ 6, PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) is supported. Here is Ref.

We should also referece another stackoverflow question. Notepad++ newline in regex

answered Sep 14 '12 at 6:00

swemon

Thanks swemon! Worked like a spell! – Kenneth Lhv Sep 14 '12 at 6:08

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