Line feed in a notepad++ file

[Jo Business]

Hello

I’m trying to use the “replace” function in notepad to replace the “line breaks” with semicolons.
For that I use replace : \but notepad++ tells me that it doesn’t find anything. But my file has lines and line breaks.
How can I tell notepadd++ to modify the “return to line” by another sign ? Thank you in advance for your help community.

[Alan Kilborn]

@jo-business

Why do you think it should find a line-ending as \n\r ?
In the status bar it says you have a Windows (CR LF) file.
As CR is \r and LF is \n, you should be searching for \r\n to find line-endings.
Or…better yet, use Regular expression mode and find any type of line-ending with \R

[Jo Business]

@alan-kilborn I apologize I am a bit of a beginner. I just tried to follow a tutorial that explained how to replace “line breaks” with the “|” sign and despite your message, I don’t really understand how to do it.

Could you explain to me how I can do this?

For the moment in the search tab I put : \nThey’re not the only ones.

and in the replace tab I put : " | ". but notepad does not find visibly in my file what corresponds to \n\r

I hope to have been clear

thank you for advance

[Neil Schipper]

@jo-business You didn’t take @alan-kilborn’s advice. Change what you have in the Recherche box to \r\n and you should be fine.

Also, play with the menu options under View -> Show Symbol (or it’s equivalent in your language) to help you to see what is normally invisible but sometimes important.

Finally, I’m pretty sure:

For the moment in the search tab I put : \nThey’re not the only ones.

is not what you actually typed. Have a look at https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21965/please-read-before-posting/1 and learn to use the triple backquote techniques for (mostly) trouble free communication when posting here.