REPLACE new line character in MYSql not working

Question

I executed following query and for some reason its not replacing new line character in database . It says Rows matched 1 but no change . What can be wrong ?

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Answer 1

If \n does not work as in my case, the following worked \r\n

UPDATE aboutme 
SET abouttext=REPLACE(abouttext,'\r\n','') 
WHERE userid='5099a95cd944b8.22468149';

In my case it has been a web application.