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.

Answer 1

1. Press Ctrl+H (Find & Replace).

2. Use those settings:

   • Search mode: Extended

   • Find what: |||||

   • Replace with: \n

3. Replace.

Answer 2

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. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4398613/notepad-newline-in-regex