>>I've got a file with some control characters and I want to replace >>one of them with a new line. I've tried: >>:s/\%x03/\n/ >>:s/\%x03/^M^J/ >>:s/\%x03/\%x0a/ > >In the search-for field, you can use '\n' to search for a newline and >span more than one line. > >In the replace-with field, you need to use '\r' instead. Something >about the way 'vi' variants store lines internally, that each string is >null-terminated and there doesn't exist an explicit newline char, so you >need to insert a return char (the '\r') in the replace-with field to >tell it to split the line. > >Soooo > > :s/^V^C/\r/ <-- ctl-V ctl-C is shorter, > else the "\%x03" will work fine > >should do what you want. > >Same with ^B that you aked about earlier, no?
Gene: Thanks very much. Yes that is what I needed. And the text I'm playing with came from some serial data and has STX ETX wrapping the real data. I was getting rid of the STX and trying to convert the ETX to end of line. And since I'm on a windows machine, Yakov suggested ^Q instead of ^V. So I think I've got it, till the next time any way. Thanks, -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...
