How Can I Insert A Carriage Return Linefeed Every X Characters With Notepad++

Question

I have a data file with a fixed record length. There are no carriage returns or line feeds delimiting the records. How can I insert a carriage return linefeed pair at every X characters using Notepad++(where X is the record length)?

Answer 1

I appreciate that it's not ideal, but I'm surprised no one offered this as a pure N++ solution

In a regular expression find/replace

Find:

(.{750}) 

Replace:

$1\r\n 

Roughly translated as...

Find:

750 instances of any character and remember the characters.

Replace:

The 750 characters we just remembered followed by a new line.

Although, to be honest, I'd stick to the powershell approach for anything more than a one-off run.