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How to insert a new line into multiline text in the Find/Replace command?

A - answer If you want to replace a string in your paragraph text in your AutoCAD DWG drawing (MText) with a new string containing the new paragraph (new line) control character, you cannot use the standard control string for a new line (carriage return, CRLF, new paragraph) - "\P".

However, you can add line breaks using the Unicode control character - \U+000A. So, for example, you can change the drawing text:

thisline

to:

new
line

Using the search string:

this

and replacing it with the string:

new\U+000A

Remember that line breaks added in this way may subsequently behave differently than normal AutoCAD paragraph breaks.

In the full version of AutoCAD, you can also use replacement utilities such as srxText from Arkance Systems to do this.

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See also:
Tip 13749:How to add the SEARCH/REPLACE command into AutoCAD Web?
Tip 13522:LookupXLS - populating DWG texts from Excel spreadsheets.
Tip 12803:How to add double line-spacing to AutoCAD paragraphs?
Tip 12432:Parse/replace Inventor iProperties using regular expressions.
Tip 9265:RENAME on steroids - complex renaming of AutoCAD objects.


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