[Notepad++] Remove CR Carriage Return and LF Line feed (CRLF)

Let's see how we can find and replace CR (Carriage Return) and LF (Line Feed) characters from a file using Notepad++ application on the Windows operating system.

Carriage Return (CR): Also know as Cartridge return,

It is a control character used to reset the position of the cursor to the beginning of the next line of a text file.

Symbol : ↵
Unicode : U+21B5
HTML Entity : ↵
ASCII : 13
Programming Languages: \r

Line Feed (LF): Also known as Newline Character or End Of Line Character (EOF) or line break. It is a special character used to signify the end of a line of text and the start of a new line in a file.

Symbol : ␤
Unicode: U+000A
HTML Entity : 
ASCII: 10
Programming Languages: \n

Carriage return and Line feed are very much associated with each other and hence you would see both of them clubbed together as CR+LF or LF+CR, CRLF or LFCR

You can use a regular expression to find CRLF character,

1. Open file in Notepad++
2. Goto Find,
3. Make sure that in Search Mode, the Regular Expression option is selected.
4. In "Find what" add regular expression [\r\n]+
5. Now you should see CRLF characters highlighted.

You can use a regular expression to find CRLF character,

1. Open file in Notepad++
2. Goto Find & Replace,
3. Make sure that in Search Mode, the Regular Expression option is selected.
4. In "Find what" add regular expression [\r\n]+ and in Replace with : \n
5. CRLF will be replaced with a newline character.

1. Go to Edit -> EOL Conversion
2. Select Windows Format