replacing escaped characters with actual newlines and tabs

[James Craner]

I feel like this is probably something very basic I'm overlooking, but I have a long string of text with literal and visible backslash-t (tab characters) and backslash-n (newlines).  So instead of a formatted multi-line page of text in columns, it's just one long massive string.  I paste it into TW...

I know that I can search in TW for a tab or newline...

But how do I convert all the visible "\t" and "\n" to actual tabs and newlines?  Like if I searched for "\t" what would I put in the "Replace" box?

Thanks for any advice!

-Jim

[Christopher Bort]

for the tab characters, search string

\\t

replace string

\t

Similar for newlines.
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[Thomas Fischer]

Hello James,

the easiest way to get around backslashes in your search field ist to select the offending string and then go to the menu

Search —> Use Selection for Find.

This will take care of escaping the necessary characters, which can be quite cumbersome if you are using grep.

Christopher gave already the appropriate replace strings.

All the best

Thomas

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