How do I search for a string in a text file that has carriage returns within the string

I have a text file I am trying to locate strings. Lets say that the txt file looked like this:

'hello

world'

When I search for the string 'hello world' the above txt file would yield 0 results. How can I go about getting a result for this instead of it being overlooked?

Thank you for the help. Will

[B.k Sumedha]

You can use

strtrim

function to remove the spaces between the text and then find the text.

[Will Kinsman]

Excellent. Similarly I also found I could use

str = regexprep(str,'\r\n|\n|\r',' ')

to remove formatting from my primary string and then search for the string.

[B.k Sumedha]

Happy Coding

Answer 1

[Will Kinsman]

str = regexprep(str,'\r\n|\n|\r',' ') or strtrim to remove formatting from the string and THEN doing a string search solves this issue