Improve this question. Is the character at the end of the line? If so this might help: stackoverflow. Is there any particular reason you want to use sed for this?
It seems easier to just run dos2unix. Oh, I did not know about this tool. It may be easier, I will check it, thanks! Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.
Improve this answer. Murray Jensen Murray Jensen 2, 2 2 gold badges 9 9 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Indeed, the very experienced will know this for the ever required conversion from CRLF as an alternative to dropping out and using dos2unix or similar. The Ctrl-V usage is a day 1 vi lesson. Victoria Stuart Victoria Stuart 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges.
Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. If the regular expression option is not selected and you perform a regular expression search, no matches are returned since it is only trying to find the text. Not all programs that support regular expressions use the same syntax for regular expressions.
In other words, a program may use a different character to represent a beginning of a line or a different method of entering an escape sequence. If following the steps above does not work, you may need to consult the product's documentation to learn how they're using regular expressions. Computer Hope Text Tool. Vim Removing blank lines with regular expressions. Tip See our removing blank lines with regular expressions section below for how this tool and other tools use regular expressions to replace blank lines.
Tip If there are multiple lines of spacing between one or more paragraphs, clicking the Replace All button more than once continues to replace the extra spaces. Tip All programs that support regular expressions have a check box or selection for Regular expressions in the find and replace option of the program.
Note If the regular expression option is not selected and you perform a regular expression search, no matches are returned since it is only trying to find the text.
See our Cookie Policy. Is there a way to replace a character in WordPad with a return character , otherwise known as a carriage return or new line? For example, the line:. I want to replace the characters.
I used to do this kind of stuff all the time. A search and replace like the one you're describing can be done easily using any version of Corel WordPerfect. Copy the character you want to search, and then in the Replace box, click the little drop-down arrow on the right of it and select New Line.
After hitting the Replace All button you can see it properly moves the sentence to the next line:. You can set all the wrap settings there.
I imagine it's similar in other versions. If you don't already have it, download HTML-kit. It's free. HTML tidy cleans up the wrap thing and you may be able to copy and paste it into Wordpad or Word or whatever and get to where you want to be. When you open the file it should quickly do line breaks on the text, then just copy it back into Wordpad and save it. It's a shot in the dark but it may work.
By the way, when you try to open the file, you may have to change it to "all files", but if I remember correctly it will pull up text files. You may want to do this in Microsoft Word. You can do a find and replace using. This will insert a line break after each period. If you want to simply put a new line in where each full stop occurs, you could do this programmatically with Java.
Here is the script to use:. You will need the Java SDK installed.
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