Re: Search & Replace

On Jul 29, 2007 patrick j wrote:

That is extremely well spotted of you. I'm going to take this to the higher
beings at the BBEdit talk email list and see what they say.

I'll report back...

Hi dorayme

Talk about this for service, I have the answer to this one from a higher
being at the BBEdit talk list.

Apparently \f (formfeed), like \t (tab), \r (carriage return), etc., are
character constructs and not part of grep.

So, these need to be escaped regardless of whether "Use Grep" is checked as
it's not a regular expression (grep) thing.

To find a string containing "\f", you have to escape the backslash:

Find: \\f

This is regardless of "Use Grep" check box.




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