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- From: saal@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (samuel.saal)
- Subject: Re: ASCII dashes in WP5.1
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:31:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.193134.502@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: dash codes
- References: <1992Nov11.150311.23102@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1992Nov13.212708.6484@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Nov13.212708.6484@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
- edwin@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Edwin Ng) writes:
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- >saal@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (samuel.saal) writes:
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- (that's me!)
-
- >>I have an ASCII file, created under UNIX, that contains a bunch of
- >>dashes (-). I imported it into WordPerfect 5.1 and would like to
- >>search for (and replace) the dashes. simply searching for a dash does
- >>not work. WP's code for a dash is "[-]" but the ASCII dash is "-" (no
- >>brackets). I tried searching fom an mdash (I don't recall the <ctrl>V
- >>code) but that didn't work, either. Can anyone tell me what to enter
- >>as the search string so I can find these dashes?
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- >Have you tried the various <CTRL-V> codes for hyphen, endash and emdash?
- >Look in the WP file character.doc or character.tst for the correct
- >codes.
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- Several kind netters sent mail saying that <home><dash> would produce the
- correct dash. It does.
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- Works great (and less filling).
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- Thanks for the net.help.
- --
- Sam Saal kingfish!saal OR saal@kingfish.att.com
- Vayiftach HaShem et Peah Ha`Aton
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