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I want to replace )\n with \n\n

Since \n is a regular expression, “Regular Expression” is ticked on the “REPLACE” screen.

The “FIND WHAT” box contains: )\n
The “REPLACE WITH” box contains: \n\n

When I click any of the “REPLACE” buttons, a dialog box is displayed saying “Found a closing ) with no corresponding opening parentheses. The error occurred while parsing the regular expression: ‘>>>HERE>>>)’”.

How do I make the above replacement?

Will the above dialog box be displayed for any other characters? If “yes”, what are they?

Brackets are special characters in regular expressions so you must escape them with a backslash if they are to match literal brackets.

Yes, that's correct. Lookup regular expressions in the help file for a list of the special characters.

Thanks, I will do that.

BTW: I don't know if there's a way to mark this thread as wonderfully resolved nor how to close this item. Can you do it for me?