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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CygnusEd Pro
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Date: 4 Sep 90 11:22:06 GMT
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In <david.7294@starsoft.UUCP>, david@starsoft.UUCP (Dave Lowrey) writes:
>
>6. A more complete pattern matching ability. Inclusion of such 'wild cards'
>   as ^ for start of line and $ for end of line would really help. Ideally,
>   full regular expressions are needed.

Use the CTRL J to signify EOL or BOL in searches. For example...

<^J>foo
foo<^J>

will search for foo at BOL or EOL, respectively. Unfortunately, I think this
can only be done from within the editor, and not from an ARexx script.

-larry

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