XY search question

["Yo Intl. YK" rrr@xxxxxxxx]

Would it be possible to somehow exclude the Return character from a XYwrite
search?
The reason I am asking is that sometimes I have to search for text in messy
files, either created by people who use a computer like a typewriter, or by
automatic extraction of text from e.g. Acrobat files.
I often know the text string is there, but I do not know where it might be
interrupted by some stupid hard return.
Tia



-- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo (rrr @ twics.com)