I am trying to search for Line Breaks, and or Carriage Returns in Quanta web editor.

Unfortunately I cannot get this to work

I am opening the Find Dialog (Ctrl-F), I tick the 'Regular Expressions' box, and enter something like:
[\n] (to search for line break). Have also tried:
[\r]
[\f]

and so forth, but no line breaks are detected in the target (html) text which obviously contains line breaks, carriage returns etc.

Any suggestions as to what could be wrong greatly appreciated. Ultimately I would like to replace
'<br> ---- line break ---- <br>'
with:
'</p><p align="left">'

I'm not using quanta, but in any other regex that
would search for a single character, either a \ or
a r(n,t) ... remove the brackets?


Cheers,
Tink

Hi - I had a similar scenario. It took me a while to figure it out.

I copied a bunch of code (from Drupal CMS editor - so all html concatenated/without linebreaks)

I wanted to re-edit the code in Quanta, and to, for example, make line breaks before each HTML bullet point to make editing easier.

<li>one<li>two<li>three
to:
<li>one
<li>two
<li>>three


Method :Copy and paste into Quanta
Place cursor at the start of the code.

Click Ctrl - R for Find and Replace
Text to find: <li>
Regular Expression - yes
Replacement text \n<li>
Use placeholders - yes
Options: From cursor

The problem I had at first was that the cursor, after pasting, was at the end of the text. After finding nothing, you're asked 'Continue from beginning' (yes) - but the Regular Expression does not work. Must be a bug. I hope this helps someone out.

(Quanta 3.5.10 on (k)ubuntu 10.4)

Hmmm---since you are the OP, are you saying you solved your own problem after almost 5 1/2 years?

Now THAT is perserverance!!!

Yes - Came across the solution after 5 years - or the program changed - I don't know which. I now have a new problem. I am trying to copy text from a PDF file (produced via windows/word and viewed through Okular) into a CMS (Drupal). I want to remove the line-breaks from the text. Find and replace with \n and \r does not seem to work here. Any solutions?