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. Gregory > On 01/22/2024 12:06 PM EST Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > I'm using the "r" (replace) instruction correctly: 1rfrom,to will > > start at line 1 and replace "from" with "to". > > > > But it looks like a leading space is ignored, so edlin treats my > > "1rwritten, written" as just "1rwritten,written" and seems to ignore > > it because the "from" and "to" strings are the same. > > > > FYI: I can add a space in the middle of a replaced word, such as: > > > > *1rtext,te xt > > 1: This is a plain te xt file,written in edlin. > > > > Is "ignore leading spaces after the comma in the 'r' command" the > > expected behavior from MS-DOS edlin? > > I haven't used EDLIN in a LONG time (decades), but just did an experiment > with MS-DOS 7.1 EDLIN. Your problem doesn't seem to be unrecognized spaces, > it seems to be that you're not using any sort of "escape" character to > separate your input and output strings. I believe you think the comma should > be the "escape" character and it isn't. There's a similar issue with > programs like SED and AWK/GAWK. > > When I'm in EDLIN (at least the one with comes with MD-SOD 7.1) and I type > "?" to get help, the syntax for the Replace command looks like this: > > Replace [startline][,endline][?]R[oldtest][CTRL+Znewtest] > > It expects you to use a Ctrl-Z (end-of-file character) as the "escape" > character. > If I use the Ctrl-Z "trick" I can replace things like you're wanting to do. > > I do not remember if earlier versions of EDLIN did this or not, nor do I know > how FD-EDLIN works. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
