[TxMt] Find and Replace problem?

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Mar 31, 2005, at 9:50 AM, Dameron Midgette wrote:

> Hi there!
>     Thanks all of you, for your help...
>     XHTML has the hN mapped to snippets, just had to dig farther.
>     As for the \s space thing, it's clear now, but a bit inconsistent 
> (or newbie confusing?). The find field works as expected, but replace 
> accepts \t and \n, but not \s. (haven't checked others) I assumed they 
> all would (started with \t), and forgot about my assumption. Perhaps 
> the unambiguous (\t,\s,\n, etc. labeled "General Escape Codes" in the 
> help files) markers could all work? IMHO, that would be more 
> consistent.

As someone already pointed out, \s would match both a tab and a regular 
space, so it would not be so clear which of them you would want to use 
in the replace part, hence you are not allowed to be ambiguous like 
that :-)

> 											Cheers,
>
> 											Dameron
> On Mar 30, 2005, at 9:48 PM, Paul McCann wrote:
>
>>>      Find and replace in 1.1b5-- search for \t, replace with \s, 
>>> regex
>>> box checked, looking in selected text. I got "s" instead of space:
>>> 3       Union   Street
>>> 3sUnionsStreet
>>
>> I think you've misunderstood the regex characters: \s means "any
>> single horizontal whitespace character", such as a tab or a space. You
>> can't use this as a replacement character (it's *not* a character),
>> just use a literal space instead. (ie, just type in a space for the
>> replacement character.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>>
>> [[I have no idea re the <H3> </H3> thing: entering "3" then a tab
>> produces a 3 followed by a tab for me!]]
>
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