Thank you very much! That does indeed work. I have also heard back from the CLAN developer, who suggests I could use a CLAN program to generate long tiers–but it does make things very hard to read in CLAN. Your solution is probably better. Thank you!!

I definitely did not have this problem in the past; I don’t know if something about CLAN has changed or what.

I presume CLAN changed (maybe it used to generate long lines, and you just saw Notepad++'s long-line wrapping, which doesn’t introduce CRLF)

If you use Regular Expression (“regex”) search syntax, as defined in the Online User Manual, you could do this.

Searching for best I could, it would fail, but searching in regex mode for best\s+I\s+could, it would find it (\s+ means “one or more whitespace characters”, where “whitespace characters” include space, tab, newline, and some other Unicode characters as well)

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