Cannot replace \n\n\n\n in text with breaks

[Omar KN]

Hey and good day,

How to clean a text from a WP backup which contains \n\n\n…

but FIND doesn't work on them and also cannot replace them with BREAKS.

F ex like this: public. \n\n\n\nContrasted with

How does this work?

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best regards,
OmarKN

 

[Ulrich Kapp]

Hi Omar,

try search with grep (regular expressions) there you can define everything you can‘t in normal search.

Cheers!

[Rich Siegel]

On 21 Jul 2025, at 4:59, Omar KN wrote:

> Hey and good day,
>
> How to clean a text from a WP backup which contains \n\n\n…
>
> but FIND doesn't work on them and also cannot replace them with BREAKS.
>
> F ex like this: public. \n\n\n\nContrasted with

If the literal text is "\n\n\n\n", you need to escape the backslashes: "\\n\\n\\n\\n".

(More on this in Chapter 7 of the user manual, via the Help menu.)

R.

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[Nicholas Pisarro Jr]

In the find box type “\\n” to get the explicit backslash and ’n’, and “\n” in the replace field—like so…

Nick Pisrro

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