Find and Replace with newline in the replacement string
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I seem to be unable to perform a simple regex find/replace.
I am attempting to add a copyright block (3 lines) to the top of all my java files and am using a regex find replace like this:
Find: ^^
Replace: /*\n (C) 2007 blah blah blah\n*/
Unfortunately the "\n" is not expanded to a newline character. I also tried with "
n" but same result. Is the find-replace regex broken or do I not know how to use it?
I am using 6.0.5 build 6180
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Replacing with new lines and with Regex option is working fine for me:
Find in Path action:
Find in File action:
Please double check your regex pattern.
If you are using regex option be sure to escape (with '\') all special characters like grouping parentheses: '(' or ')', see https://www.regular-expressions.info/refcharacters.html
I am also getting the string literal when attempting this, doesn't add a line break in webstorm either.
I tried selecting the regex option (which was hidden and tricky to find on 12" screen) but this led to not finding any matches. Any clues on what is happening?
It only occurs in cases where I have a replacement search term involving something like ‘const db = pmongo(config...’ when an open bracket is introduced. Are you getting the same?
Thank you, this is helpful!
escaping (\\n) worked for me, thanks!