[Solved] Find and insert rather that find and replace

[The Half Mad Poet]

I've got a series of data that looks like this:

aoeu8eui6dbd9qjohui5bedu4

And I need it to look like this:

aoeu8
eui6
dbd9
qjohui5
bedu4

But it's almost 11,000 lines long.

I'm trying to find a way to search for every instance of a number followed by a letter and place a paragraph mark between them. With the Find & Replace dialogue and the Alt Find & Replace dialogue I haven't found a way to do this because once it finds the combo, I can only replace them, not keep them and insert the paragraph mark between them.

[FJCC]

Using your example text, I searched for \w\d and I replaced it with &\n. With regular expressions turned on on More Options, I got your desired result when I click Replace All.

Edit: It also works to search for (\d)(\w) and replace with $1\n$2

[robleyd]

Alternatively, using Writer's native Find/Replace with Regular expressions enabled, search

([:digit:])([:alpha:])

and replace

$1\n$2

.

[The Half Mad Poet]

Thank you both for the responses, I was able to get it to work perfectly with the solution from robleyd. FJCC's solution also worked but there were some places with double and triple digits that it didn't work quite as well for this use. But both were great solutions. Thanks!