Re: ASCII dashes in WP5.1

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From: Edwin Ng
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:27

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saal@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (samuel.saal) writes:

>I have an ASCII file, created under UNIX, that contains a bunch of
>dashes (-).  I imported it into WordPerfect 5.1 and would like to
>search for (and replace) the dashes.  simply searching for a dash does
>not work.  WP's code for a dash is "[-]" but the ASCII dash is "-" (no
>brackets).  I tried searching fom an mdash (I don't recall the <ctrl>V
>code) but that didn't work, either.  Can anyone tell me what to enter
>as the search string so I can find these dashes?

Have you tried the various <CTRL-V> codes for hyphen, endash and emdash?
Look in the WP file character.doc or character.tst for the correct
codes.

Hope this helps,

Edwin
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* Edwin Ng                                          *
* Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering *
* University of Auckland                            *

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Subject: Re: ASCII dashes in WP5.1
Message-ID: <1992Nov13.212708.6484@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
From: edwin@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Edwin Ng)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:27:08 GMT
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