How to insert \r with Visual Studio Regex find-replace

Question

I would expect that to do a regex find-replace where you'd like to insert one backslash and one lowercase r you would type into the little regex replace box in visual studio \\\\r

in order to have one escaped backslash and then a lowercase r. However, it doesn't work that way. When you type \\\\r you get two backslashes instead of one backslash. And I know what you're thinking - if you type \\r :

you get a literal carriage return! How are you supposed to do it?

Answer 1

In your scenario, to replace foo with a literal \\r , turn off Use Regular Expressions in the Find/Replace box.