Replace a certain character with ENTER

[Rumi Balkhi]

Hi, I have to change the following

text text ******* text text
text text ******* text text

To

text text
text text
text text
text text

Which means, replacing (*******) with an enter

Kindly suggest a solution

Thanks

[patrickdrd]

search -> replace

check “search mode: extended”

replace with: “\n” (without the quotes)

[Alan Kilborn]

Since @patrickdrd 's solution was a tad unclear, I’d suggest:

Find: \s*\*+\s*
Replace: \r\n for Windows-formatted file OR \n for Linux-formatted file
Search mode: Regular Expression

Of course, maybe the OP’s usage of * was just an example. This is unfortunate as * is a special character and needs “escaping” with \ when used in a reg exp, which just makes the whole thing appear more cryptic/complicated. :)