I get the correct output but in my script it doesn't change the pipe or remove the new line. Funny because i copied the char into a hex editor and got "a" (new line not carriage return) I'll play around with it some more tomorrow but is there a way to use hex values in the regex? - just googled http://www.regular-expressions.info/nonprint.html so I'll have another look at a hex editor tomorrow and give it a go trying with hex symbols.

foo | bar
baz qux
fred wilma
barney
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