Re: text replace and SpecialCharacters

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From: jongware
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:29

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findWhat and changeTo expect the same syntax as in the UI, that is, regular text strings with special characters escaping and wildcarding the same way. A Forced Line Break in regular Find (findTextPreferences) is "^n" and in GREP mode "\n" (findGrepPreferences).

Take notice of proper backslash escaping; because you are programming in JavaScript, the backslash (as GREP Escape character) needs to be escaped (as JavaScript Escape character). You missed that one in your '\r' sample.

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