Re: ASCII dashes in WP5.1

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From: samuel.saal
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:31

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In article <1992Nov13.212708.6484@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
edwin@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Edwin Ng) writes:

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

(that's me!)

>>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.

Several kind netters sent mail saying that <home><dash> would produce the
correct dash.  It does.

Works great (and less filling).

Thanks for the net.help.
-- 
Sam Saal      kingfish!saal OR saal@kingfish.att.com
	Vayiftach HaShem et Peah Ha`Aton

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From: saal@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (samuel.saal)
Subject: Re: ASCII dashes in WP5.1
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:31:34 GMT
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