Find and replace - Add carriage return OR Newline

Question

In the case of following string to be parsed.

ford mustang,10,blue~~?bugatti veyron,13,black 

I want to replace the ~~? with a carriage return

Replacing with \n just adds the string "\n"

How can this be done?

Answer 1

Make sure "Use: Regular expressions" is selected in the Find and Replace dialog:

Note that for Visual Studio 2010, this doesn't work in the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools' "Quick Find" extension (as of the July 2011 update); instead, you'll need to use the full Find and Replace dialog (use Ctrl+Shift+H, or Edit --> Find and Replace --> Replace in Files), and change the scope to "Current Document".

Answer 2

You can also try \x0d\x0a in the "Replace with" box with "Use regular Expression" box checked to get carriage return + line feed using Visual Studio Find/Replace. Using \n (line feed) is the same as \x0a