Replace \r\n with newline in Notepad++

Question

How do I replace the string "\r\n" with the same characters?

Example:

Hello World.\r\nHello World.

replaced with:

Hello World.
Hello World.

score 224 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 13 '15 at 17:07

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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 search mode Extended (\r, \n, \t, \x..., \0) and click "Replace All".

edited Nov 13 '15 at 17:07

Marcus Mangelsdorf

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answered Sep 17 '09 at 14:04

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works in Programmer's notepad as well. Select "Allow backslash expressions" and do the same – Peter Munnings Jul 03 '12 at 19:05
Does that work in newer versions of Notepad++? Or does it require selecting the option "Extended (\n, \r, \t, \0, \x)"? – Peter Mortensen Feb 15 '14 at 19:14
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Search mode has to be "Extended" to work. – Marcel Mar 19 '14 at 16:06
This also works in notepad2 in case anyone is interested. Check regular expression search when replacing – Hoppe Mar 31 '14 at 16:39
You could also do what I did and turn off extended search then replace \r\n with some unique string like "~~~~" then turn extended search back on and replace that string with \r\n. An extra step but it works. – Steve Hiner Oct 04 '14 at 00:11
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it doesn't work – Kelmen Nov 05 '15 at 05:45
I had to replace it with \r\n but it did work – runxc1 Bret Ferrier Jul 10 '18 at 21:51
Do not forget to move the text cursor to the beginning of the text before replacing. Otherwise, it won't work. This always gets me. – akinuri Oct 23 '20 at 18:11
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NB: this process can be automated using a Notepad++ macro. Just follow the Macro record and save process – Xcheque Nov 02 '22 at 02:36

C. Ross · Answer 2 · 2012-06-18T10:38:42.130

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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.

edited Jun 18 '12 at 10:38

answered Sep 17 '09 at 14:03

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Does this actually work, or do you need to do escaping? – Josh Hunt Sep 17 '09 at 14:21
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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

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 23 '18 at 15:13

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I tried the top voted answer, but I couldn't get it to work for my newer version of Notepad++. I had to reverse what they did. So:

Press CTRL-h and the Replace dialog will open. Type \r\n in "Find what" and \\r\\n in "Replace with". Then select search mode Extended (\r, \n, \t, \x..., \0) and click "Replace All".

Literally what Marcus did but reversed worked for me.

answered Oct 23 '18 at 15:13

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This doesn't answer the question. – Toto Oct 23 '18 at 15:14
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your way will convert the real the new line to the literal `\r\n` in the file, whereas the question is about **converting the literal `\r\n` to new lines** – phuclv Oct 23 '18 at 17:03
I had text just like OP in my notepad++, and it worked. Where it would literally say something like: *Hello World.\r\nHello World.* to be: Hello World With my version of Notepad++, doing the top voted answer did not fix it for me, but switching it did work for me. (I can't get stack overflow to register that I put a new line in between Hello and World... So just know that between Hello and World, it has a new line like how it should) – Sara Richardson Oct 29 '18 at 16:00

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 17 '09 at 14:04

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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.

answered Sep 17 '09 at 14:04

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

Replace \r\n with newline in Notepad++

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