On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:24 AM Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > FD edlin ignores a leading space. If you want the leading space to be > searched for, put the string in quotes; e.g. > > 1r"written"," written" > > The reason why I didn't stick a ^Z there is because I wanted to get > away from control characters in the commands, and a comma just looks > better, IMHO. >
Ah - very helpful! That solves my problem. Thanks! Also can use the same trick to change a comma to something else. Here's another 1-line demo: *1p 1:*period, *1r",","." 1: period. If you can't see it well, that's a 'comma inside double quotes' then a comma, then a 'period inside double quotes.' But really it just needs the quotes about the comma, and only if it's the first comma. Here's an example to change it back again: *1r.,"," 1: period, *1r",",. 1: period. *1r.,, 1: period, That last one changes the period to a comma, and you don't need the double quotes around the second comma in this case. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
