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Asked: 2026-06-04T16:24:11+00:00

I’ve been looking for this one all day now, this is the closest useful

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I’ve been looking for this one all day now, this is the closest useful ref I found.

My problem: huge files are imported from a closed system (can’t be altered at the source) and need to be imported. These files are | separated and have a CRLF at the end of each line
(until the last one). Now they found it funny to include a new type that can contain text with CR and CRLF in the text (instedd of <br>).

So what I need to do before I can process this file in our system, is to replace all CRLF and CR occurrences that are not preceded by a | to <br>, so that every line starts with a code like 000| … 600|

Closest I’ve got in Notepad ++:
Find: (?<![\|])[\r\n]+$

Replace: <br>

The prroblem is that it will not give a <br> for every crlf, misses crlf after cr… Other attempts to select the |crlf too forget the CR altogether.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated. Do keep in mind that the file can be over 500MB (complicating things a bit)

Extract of the file:

000|709076|153943|11||1|CRLF 
300|709076|153943|11|4|20000729||Majo509|CRLF 
500|709076|153943|11|6|3-3BNME|20000729|||21.13|4||20120509|CRLF 
600|709076|153943|11||SBV|7103||||20120509|CRLF 
600|709076|153943|11||SBV|7105||||20120509|CRLF 
600|709076|153943|11||SBV|7607||||20120509|CRLF 
600|709076|153943|11||MC||EVALUATIEROOSTER NIET INGEVULD :CR
CRLF 
------------------------------CR
CRLF 
CRLF 
Gezien U het evaluatierooster niet heeft ingevuld, blijft CR
CRLF 
CRLF 
|||20120509|CRLF 
600|709076|153943|11||SBV|7517||||20120509|CRLF 
000|709209|154072|9||1|Dne|LA1349|3100||L|20120509|CRLF 
300|709209|154072|9|3|20HEM-AT20120509|CRLF 
500|709209|154072|9|6|3-3BNME|20000908|||15.4|3||20120509|CRLF 
600|709209|154072|9||SBV|7103||||20120509|CRLF 
600|709209|154072|9||MC||AFSCHAFFING VAN DE EVOOR HET CR
CRLF 
(DE) GEBOUW(EN) CR
CRLF 
CR
CRLF 
indien U huurder of gebruiker bent.|||20120509|CRLF 
600|709209|154072|9||MC||DIEFSTAL  CRLF

…

Required result: (rough copy paste job ;))

000|709076|153943|11||1|CRLF 
300|709076|153943|11|4|20000729||Majo509|CRLF 
500|709076|153943|11|6|3-3BNME|20000729|||21.13|4||20120509|CRLF 
600|709076|153943|11||SBV|7103||||20120509|CRLF 
600|709076|153943|11||SBV|7105||||20120509|CRLF 
600|709076|153943|11||SBV|7607||||20120509|CRLF 
600|709076|153943|11||MC||EVALUATIEROOSTER NIET INGEVULD :<BR><BR>---------------------<BR><BR><BR>Gezien U het evaluatierooster niet heeft ingevuld, blijft <BR><BR>||20120509|CRLF 
600|709076|153943|11||SBV|7517||||20120509|CRLF 
000|709209|154072|9||1|Dne|LA1349|3100||L|20120509|CRLF 
300|709209|154072|9|3|20HEM-AT20120509|CRLF 
500|709209|154072|9|6|3-3BNME|20000908|||15.4|3||20120509|CRLF 
600|709209|154072|9||SBV|7103||||20120509|CRLF 
600|709209|154072|9||MC||AFSCHAFFING VAN DE EVOOR HET <BR><BR>(DE) GEBOUW(EN) <BR><BR><BR><BR>indien U huurder of gebruiker bent.|||20120509|CRLF 
600|709209|154072|9||MC||DIEFSTAL  CRLF
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  1. Editorial Team

    Wow, this one phased me for a little while…
    It’s tricky to do it in one pass.

    The N++ constraint probably makes it tougher than it needs to be, but short of writing some code to do what you want it’s a good way to go I guess.

    While I’m not sure it’s optimal, I had success with this combo.
    Find:

    ([^|])\r([\r\n])*

    Replace:

    $1<br>

    You need the $1 in the replace or you lose a character from your replaced lines – probably not what you want!

    Ideally, you should look into some Perl (I’m no perl advocate, other scripting languages handling regex are available…) or something to do this.

    Edit:
    Just a thought. This makes the assumption that there won’t be sections of your file that contain |CRLF or |CR or |CRCR that are not ‘real’ line endings.

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