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In Notepad++ search for a string and newline

I have following strings in the test text files:

123
abc \
456
def

I would like to search for \ + newline in Notepad++ within all .txt files in a particular folder. So something like \ \n\r.

Does anyone know how I can achieve this in Notepad++?

Solution

  • You may search for the following pattern:

    [ ]\\\R

    Explanation:

    [ ]  find a space character
\\   find a literal backslash character
\R   find a device independent newline

    Note that \R will match the same thing as \r?\n, which covers both Linux and Windows line endings (depending on your actual system).