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From: bill@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Bill Frolik)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: regexp help
Message-ID: <110960002@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 2 Feb 90 18:00:13 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> Given a line like this:
> 	font.c, down.c, arc.c
> how do I replace the ", " with a newline so each file name
> is on a different line?
> It works if I define a keyboard macro, but I can't
> figure out how to do it with either string-replace or
> regexp-replace.
> 	greg Strockbine


When you specify a replacement string, quote the newline character
with ^Q.  In your example you can use replace-string to search for
", " and replace it with "^Q^J".

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Bill Frolik	Hewlett-Packard Co.
hp-pcd!bill	Corvallis, Oregon