My original reply got eaten by the listserv as it thought I was sending it commands (Didn't have any text of than the commands).
SET ARBCHAR ON (or just ARBCHAR ON) ZONE 1 2 C/$/Q DA/* since he also wanted to strip out the leading numbers as shown in his desired results. Robert Reuscher NR5AR On Feb 21, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) > <terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov> wrote: > >> I want to insert the following command Q DA in front of each entry. What is >> the best way to do this using xedit? > > This sound like "how can a drill a hole with... " type of challenge. I > probably would not use XEDIT to do it but rather > :0 pipe xedit | spec ,Q DA, 1 w2 nw | cp | cons > (assuming you want to issue the commands, not just have a file with > the commands in it...) > > Surprised none of the more experienced XEDIT people suggested ARBCHAR ? > set arbchar on $ > :0 ch /$ /Q DA / * > > Rob
