Replace each character of a word with line break

Question

I want to have a line break between each character/letter of the word

if the word is < Hello > I want it as

 H

 e

 l

 l

 o

Answer 1

• Ctrl+H
• Find what: .
• Replace with: $0\n
• CHECK Wrap around
• CHECK Regular expression
• UNCHECK . matches newline
• Replace all

Explanation:

.           # any character but linebreak

Replacement:

$0          # the whole match, a single character
\n          # a line feed, you can use \r\n for Windows end of line

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Screenshot (after):

Answer 2

In notepad++, click CTRL+H, then set:

1. Find what: ([\w\s\d])>

2. Replace with: $1\n

3. Set search mode to Regular expression

Example:

Welcome < Hello > world

Output:

W
e
l
o
c
m
e

< 
H
e
l
l
o

> 
w
o
r
d