Re: 2004 wildcard fix-good and bad

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From: John McGhie (john_at_mcghie.name)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:45:16 +1000

Hmmm... Nope, not here. ^13 works as advertised. Try ^p. If you get the
same result with ^p (must be lowercase 'p') you have a corrupt document.

(The difference is ^13 is looking for Character number 13, the New Line, ^p
is looking for "a paragraph mark" (which is not a character, it's a
container of information)).

Cheers

On 25/5/04 12:26 AM, in article
a0491e7.0405240626.305ed76b@posting.google.com, "A. Hill" <ahillnyc@aol.com>
wrote:

> Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP] <korventeen@NoSpam.mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:<eMNFIHQQEHA.3300@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
>> On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:08:13 -0500, A. Hill wrote
>> (in article <a0491e7.0405230308.7621f24b@posting.google.com>):
>>
>>>
>>> Alas, I don't see any new tools here. Nothing new in Help. ~A
>>
>> Indeed. Just a few bug fixes. Nevertheless, there is still the possilibty to
>> pipe the text to BBEdit or grep through AppleScript. I've been to lazy to
>> write the code for myself, I simply copy and paste between apps. Since the
>> tools weren't there I got used to work as much as I could in BBEdit and then
>> transfer the text to Word for formatting.
>
>
> C,
> What is grep? I don't know it.
> I may not be able to take advantage of it, since my macros are for
> user's toolbars in Word, but I'm curious.
>
> Now the bad news: I just noticed a possible unfixed wildcard bug.
> To find paragraph marks in a wildcard expression, Help says to use
> ^13.
> In my 2004 test drive, it doesn't find them, although ^12 does find
> section breaks as promised.
> I tried using (^13). It finds the first, but if you Find Next you get
> the spinning beachball.
> I think I've seen complaints about this in this forum before.
> I guess we'll see a fix in, oh say, 2008. ~A 

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