>Chetak Sasalu wrote: >> I want to search for the word "status" in a group of files in a >> directory and replace it with "status\n^L" where ^L is a page break >> chatacter, In vi I can type it in using cntrl+l.
if you really want to 'type' it in, you can type "<C-v><C-l>" you can insert tabs in a regex with ctrl-v, too. // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 646-331-2027 <IXOYE>< Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>