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Searching for Non printing characters
Submitted by northernfrontier on Tuesday, 25 October, 2005 - 21:21
How do you search for non-printing characters? ie: Searching for and replacing all carriage returns with tabs or vice versa...
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Use Search > Find mark on th
by ApeHanger on Wed, 26/10/2005 - 11:11
Use Search > Find
mark on the Dialog Settings: Regular Expressions
then enter in the Search for Field: \r
and in the Replace with Section: \t

Tip: in the jEdit Help there is a section jEdits Users Guide > Using jEdit > Regular Expressions you will find a list of "Character Class Shortcuts"

.Ape
 
Searching for "\r" doesn't wo
by user2037 on Wed, 20/05/2009 - 18:55
Searching for "\r" doesn't work with Jedit 4.3-pre16 or 4.2-final on Ubuntu 9.04.
 
Maybe "\n" does the job. R
by Robert Schwenn on Wed, 20/05/2009 - 20:47
Maybe "\n" does the job.

Robert
 
Searching for not printing characters
by northernfrontier on Thu, 27/10/2005 - 01:11
Thanks much, converting over from BBedit, which kind of combined regexp and the regular searching all into one...
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