# Making a new line in Find/Replace?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/making-a-new-line-in-find-replace/80103>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [October 5, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/making-a-new-line-in-find-replace/80103 "2023-10-05T20:14:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![IgnitionNewbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/94ad74/32.png) [@IgnitionNewbie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/IgnitionNewbie)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/making-a-new-line-in-find-replace/80103/1 "2023-10-05T20:14:22Z")

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I have 100s of query tags I want to paste an extra new line into , but Im not sure how to make it add an enter space in the replace field

it just keeps slapping it onto the end , and it doesnt seem to have any limit to how much space the line its currently on can go

an example would be if i try to find the word example: and i wanted to add the word NewLine to it

I get `Example:NewLine `

but what I am really trying to do is

`Example:`  
`NewLine`

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**Author:** ![Simen\_Minerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Simen\_Minerd](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Simen_Minerd)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/making-a-new-line-in-find-replace/80103/2 "2023-10-05T20:39:14Z")

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Just a heads up, be very very careful using find and replace.  
I messed up my project big time, when they were running, took me long time to fix all of them, and went home late.

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**Author:** ![IgnitionNewbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/94ad74/32.png) [@IgnitionNewbie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/IgnitionNewbie)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/making-a-new-line-in-find-replace/80103/3 "2023-10-06T22:04:14Z")

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ill keep that in mind

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/making-a-new-line-in-find-replace/80103/4 "2023-10-06T22:11:24Z")

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Basically, no, not via find & replace as it currently exists.

Perspective views in particular are just JSON files on disk though, so you could potentially run a structured replace operation in a powerful enough text editor or a tool like `jq`.