I cannot seem to get search and replace to put the hex 0A into the file. I do Find of ¶, replace ¶\x0A, and keep getting a 'CR' put into the file instead of 'LF'. Preferences/Text Files/Translate line breaks is not selected. BBEdit 9.6.3 (2890), OS X 10.6.8 I must be missing something. Ken
On Sep 21, 5:00 pm, Patrick Woolsey <[email protected]> wrote: > "Ken G. Brown" <[email protected]> sez: > > >I have a tab delimited file of memos exported from Palm Desktop that has > >pilcrows in it as text new line indicators, and normal Mac CR (I assume) > >as new record (new memo) indicators. > >I'm trying to import the file into 1Password but the pilcrows are not > >recognized for what they are intended and remain as pilcrows. > > >The file when opened in BBEdit shows that it uses normal Mac line endings > >of CR. > > >I would like to try converting the pilcrows to line feeds but when I do a > >search and replace in BBEdit, using \n as the replacement, it looks like > >it just puts a CR and it messes up the memo records. > > >How would i force the pilcrows to remain as invisible LF ($10) in the file? > > You can use the hex escape form to insert literal LFs: \x0A > > Regards, > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com> > P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 01730-1048 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
