I have a custom body transaction field defined as a text area and am trying to add the text of this field into my Advanced PDF Template for my purchase orders.  I want to split the text into an array of the lines so that I can print each line in a table row so that longer messages will page-break nicely.  With the text value below as an example if I split this using a comma I end up with 3 “lines”:

If the field contains the following value:

“Hi Nick,

How are you today?

Best,

Joe”

<#assign lines = record.custbody_text_message?split(",")>
<#list lines as line>
${line_index}
</#list>

However; what I am trying to do is split the lines on the “newline” such that I should end up with total of 4 lines.  I cannot seem to find a way to get it to work.  I have tried all of these variations of arguments with the split function:

<#assign lines = record.custbody_text_message?split("\r\n", "r")>
<#assign lines = record.custbody_text_message?split("\r?\n", "r")>
<#assign lines = record.custbody_text_message?split("\r?\n+", "r")>
<#assign lines = record.custbody_text_message?split("(\r?\n)+", "r")>
<#assign lines = record.custbody_text_message?split("\\r\\n", "r")>
<#assign lines = record.custbody_text_message?split("\\r?\\n", "r")>
<#assign lines = record.custbody_text_message?split("\\r?\\n+", "r")>
<#assign lines = record.custbody_text_message?split("(\\r?\\n)+", "r")>

All of the above and many other deviations have failed to produce anything but the entire message as the first and only return value.  I’ve read extensively and freemarker.org and the links to oracle relating to splitting strings in java.  I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.  Any help is greatly appreciated!