regex - find & replace commas with newline on Google Spreadsheet

Question

I've been trying to figure out how to replace commas with line-breaks. I've tried using (/r/n/), char(10), the Unicode representation (can't remember now), but it rather predictably replaces the comma with whatever I type in the other box, not converting it to a line-break

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7528169/find-replace-commas-with-newline-on-google-spreadsheet

Answer 1

IF you are trying to use the Ctrl+F to find and replace well you can't. at least I dont know how.

but if you have a cell say A1 that contains the following : "stack,overflow" then if you type this in A2 it should work: =SUBSTITUTE(A1, ",", char(10))

https://support.google.com/docs/bin/static.py?hl=en&topic=25273&page=table.cs

you can then copy the content of A2 and in A3 right click -> Paste Special... -> Values Only.

Hope this helps

UPDATE 2016-AUG Google Spreadsheet now support searching for newline using here is how: Edit -> Find and Replace