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Re: MacWrite Find and Change Question

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From: Lyle Harwood
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 17:27
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Andrew W. Robinson (zawr02@hou.amoco.com) wrote:
: 
: My apologies if this is a FAQ.
: 
: Using the Find and Change feature of MacWrite, how does one specify
non-printable
: characters?  Based on my experience with Unix, I tried \t
(backslash-t) for tab 
: and it worked, but \n (backslash-n) for newline did not.  Also, are
there 
: equivalents to the Unix regular expression metacharaters to signify
that a string
: occurs at the start or end of a line?  If these features exist, where
would
: one find a reference for them?
: 
: I am most likely to see replies by e-mail, though I will try to get
back to this
: newsgroup by week's end.  Thanks a million in advance.
: 
: Andrew Robinson

What I do is turn on "show invisables" in menu ona far right, (I forget
what it's called), and then select the nonprintable I want to search for
by dragging through it, and cut & paste it.
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