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From: saal@sfsup.UUCP (+Saal S.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 5.0 and control characters
Summary: thanks folks.  Here's the answer of choice
Keywords: backspace WordPerfect search replace
Message-ID: <5287@sfsup.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 89 16:42:42 GMT
References: <5250@sfsup.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T-BL, Summit N.J. USA 07901
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted the following request:

In article <5250@sfsup.UUCP>, saal@sfsup.UUCP (+Saal S.) writes:
> I have an ASCII file that contains a few control characters.
> I can read it into WP5.0 as ASCII text, but how do I search
> for these characters?  In vi I can use a <cntrl>v or a
> backslash to quote a character.  What is the equivalent in
> WP?

> Sam Saal         ..!attunix!saal

I've received at least a half a dozen answers.  They were split into
two groups:  Some said use ctrl-v and some said use ALT<num> where
<num> is the ascii numeric value of the control code
I want.

I've tried the <ctrl>-v approach and it works perfectly.  What threw
me was the fact that after hitting hte ctrl-v you get a new prompt
("Key: ").  Once I got the help from the net, I figured out that
this prompt was prompting me to do what I really _did_ want to do.

Thanks for all your help.
-- 
Sam Saal         ..!attunix!saal
Vayiphtach HaShem et Peah HaAtone