To find the end of a line with a regular expression, use the dollar sign ("$") as your search term.

To find the actual carriage returns in the MarcEdit editor, use the program's built-in hex editor--but you can't edit the file with that (at least not in 7.5.73).

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Cab Vinton
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2021 12:30 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [EXT] [MARCEDIT-L] Searching for carriage returns
> 
> Hi, All --
> 
> My regex searches for carriage returns -- \r\n, \r, \n -- are all being returned empty.
> 
> The record structure validator is able to identify these as malformed fields, so I'm wondering if there's another way of doing this so
> we can do a simple find & replace. (We have a number of records where catalogers copy & pasted lengthy plot summaries into the
> 520.)
> 
> Many thank in advance,
> 
> Cab Vinton, Director
> Plaistow Public Library
> Plaistow, NH
> 
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