How can I use newline with the Find-And-Replace in Visual Studio?

Question

I've become rather fond of the "Find-And-Replace" function in Visual Studio. The function lets me replace phrases, words, symbols, or whatever you can type into the textbox on the screen.

How can I make it replace a character with a newline?

Solution

According to Helixoft: Multiline Search and Replace in Visual Studio
you can enable Regular Expressions and then use \n to indicate a new line.

Comments

[TriSys]

Make sure that you do not have Match Case or Match Whole Word set as this breaks in VS2012.

[Michael Freidgeim]

There is similar question in SO Visual studio find and replace - Add carriage return, OR Newline

[Charles Roberto Canato]

Also, if you're Finding and must cross a line, be careful to include \r\n to indicate that, as these don't get caught in wildcards.

[Marwin]

This doesn't work in vs 2013

[Tamara Wijsman]

@Marwin: Please note that some documents contain \r too. It works for me in VS 2013...

[Marwin]

\r\n worked, it is because of the windows line endings I guess. Thank you for the advice.