Of course, quotes can be escaped. -- Gregory
> On 01/22/2024 5:18 PM EST Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
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> That solves the problem with commas, but it looks like you may still have
> issues if there are quotes in the file.
>
> I know one thing I've done in the past with some of
That solves the problem with commas, but it looks like you may still have
issues if there are quotes in the file.
I know one thing I've done in the past with some of my programs is allow the
use of either a double-quote ("), single-quote ('), or grave-quote (`) as
string demarkers, which allows
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:24 AM Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> FD edlin ignores a leading space. If you want the leading space to be
> searched for, put the string in quotes; e.g.
>
> 1r"written"," written"
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> The reason why I didn't stick a ^Z there is because I wanted to get
> aw
nical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers."
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> Cc: "Gregory Pietsch"
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Question about edlin
>
> FD edlin ignores a leading space. If you want the leading space to be
> searched for, put the string in quotes; e.g.
>
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To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers."
Cc: "Gregory Pietsch"
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Question about edlin
FD edlin ignores a leading space. If you want the leading space to be searched for, put the string in quotes; e.g.
1r"written&q
FD edlin ignores a leading space. If you want the leading space to be searched
for, put the string in quotes; e.g.
1r"written"," written"
The reason why I didn't stick a ^Z there is because I wanted to get away from
control characters in the commands, and a comma just looks better, IMHO.
Grego
> I'm using the "r" (replace) instruction correctly: 1rfrom,to will
> start at line 1 and replace "from" with "to".
>
> But it looks like a leading space is ignored, so edlin treats my
> "1rwritten, written" as just "1rwritten,written" and seems to ignore
> it because the "from" and "to" strings ar
I actually do use edlin sometimes. But I have a question that might
actually be a bug report:
When I try to search and replace text, and I want to add a space in
front of my replaced text, I can't get it to work. Am I doing this
wrong?
Here's an example: In this 1-line file, I want to edit the li
