Notepad new line character

External Since: Apr 01, 2006 Posts: 11

I have a text file that includes many records of information. In the file
there is a "~" which separates the records. I would like to insert a
character instead of the "~" which would make Notepad put the information
after that on a new line, to clean up the data. Is this possible?

Thanks

External Since: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 109

On 9/13/2007, Jake posted this:
> I have a text file that includes many records of information. In the file
> there is a "~" which separates the records. I would like to insert a
> character instead of the "~" which would make Notepad put the information
> after that on a new line, to clean up the data. Is this possible?
>
> Thanks

Not easily in NotePad or WordPad.

Easily in NoteTab, http://www.notetab.com

The price is right if you download NoteTab Light Smile

You would run a replace-all command, replacing ~ by \r\n -- but be
sure to check the "regular expression" box.

"\" is a prefix to indicate regular expression codes and special
characters. "\r" is a carriage return and "\n" is a line-feed; the pair
forms a windows newline.

It's in the help file, but (I think) hard to find.

NoteTab isn't the only editor that is free and can do the above, it's
just the one I use most often and remember the name of Wink

BTW, this is the wrong newsgroup for this question. It should be in a
general Windows newsgroup or a text-editing group.

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