On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:40:17 -0500, Anthony Chilco
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi David,
> Very weird. You can search for row breaks (shift-enter), but
> you can't replace with them. This is from the regular
> expressions help page:

Yeah I had read that, but hoped that there was some way to get around
it:-(  I guess I could fiddle with the XML, but that doesn't strike me
as being a particularly pleasant approach.

> \n
> Finds a hard row break that was inserted with Shift+Enter.
> To change row breaks into paragraph breaks, enter \n in the
> Search for and Replace with boxes, and then click the
> Replace all button.
> 
>  From this I infer that \n means row break when used in the
> search box and it means paragraph break when used in the
> replace box. You can search for paragraph breaks using
> regular expressions with $ in the search box, but you don't
> have the option to replace with a row break because the \n
> expression means paragraph break when replacing. It seems to
> be deliberate when you read the help, but doesn't look right
> to me.

Yes, to me it seems there ought to be one way to specify a character,
visible or not, in both fields.

Thanks for your help in any case,
-- 
David N. Welton
 - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/

Apache, Linux, Tcl Consulting
 - http://www.dedasys.com/

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