find a string and move to new line

Sudhir0103

I would like split line into a new line after finding a specific character

Eg.

edit "*.pokotalks.com" set type fqdn set fqdn "*.pokotalks.com"

should become like below

edit "*.pokotalks.com"
set type fqdn 
set fqdn "*.pokotalks.com"

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moderator added code markdown around text; please don’t forget to use the </> button to mark example text as “code” so that characters don’t get changed by the forum

PeterJones

@Sudhir0103 ,

You don’t say what the “specific character” is, and there is no specific character in your example data. But if what you want is to convert space character followed by set to newline sequence followed by set (but only if set is a whole word, not the start of some other word like setting), an easy way to do that is:

FIND WHAT = \x20set\b
- the \x20 means the space character; if you wanted, you could just type a space as the first character in FIND WHAT, but it’s hard to copy/paste unnoticed space character from the forum, so I use the escape sequence instead
- the \b is what keeps it matching set but not setting
REPLACE WITH = \r\nset
- \r\n is the windows CRLF line ending.
SEARCH MODE = Regular Expression
Click REPLACE ALL

There are other ways to do it, but this one is pretty easy for a regex (regular expression) newbie to understand

(update: fixed from saying wrong \x32 to right \x20)

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find a string and move to new line

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