In Intellij IDEA how do I replace text with a new line?

Question

Say I wanted to replace all commas with commas and a new line using Intellij IDEA\'s replace function. What do I put in the search box? In vim I\'d use &\\r

Answer 1

A clean approach would be to add (?m) in front of the regular expression, which turns on the multi line mode. This has the advantage that you can also use it in the global file search (Ctrl-Shift-F).

Example: (?m)\{(.|\n)*?\} searches for multi-line blocks surrounded by curly braces.