Finding a line break in a text string in a SQL table?

Question

I was trying to find line breaks and carriage returns in a column in a SQL table and I am not sure about the syntax.

I tried:

SELECT foo FROM test WHERE foo LIKE CHAR(10) 

I didn't get any results even though I know that the table should return results. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

SELECT foo FROM test WHERE foo LIKE '%' + CHAR(10) + '%' 

Edit: to find all various types of line endings you should probably just check both:

SELECT foo FROM test WHERE foo LIKE '%' + CHAR(10) + '%'                         OR foo LIKE '%' + CHAR(13) + '%'