Find and replace with newlines and carriage returns in Visual Studio Code

Question

Task

To replace characters by carriage returns \r.
More specifically, I want to globally replace \r\n\r\n\r\n by \r\n\r\n

What I've done

• I know how to spot newline and carriage returns in VSC. This also allows replacement by \n, but not by\r (being filled in literally).
• It also doesn't help to escape the baskslash in (\\r)

Any ideas?

Answer 1

It is unclear what exactly you are trying to do. But if you are just trying to reduce 3 consecutive linebreaks to 2 try:

Find: (\r?\n\r?\n)\r?\n

Replace: $1

works for me. There is no literal \r inserted - perhaps because the replacement is with a capture group.