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Posted by John Salerno on 11/22/26 11:38
Els wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
>
>> Can someone tell me how I can search for the phrase:
>>
>> Function -
>>
>> (Has spaces before and after the hyphen)
>>
>> I'm using UltraEdit, and when I type it in just like that, it can't find
>> it, so I may have to use Regular Expressions. I've tried a few things,
>> but they didn't work either, so I'm not sure I'm doing it right.
>> Basically I want to replace that text in a bunch of files with nothing.
>
> Have you tried just doing a copy paste from your file into the
> search/replace box? Sometimes that tells you for instance that the
> space is a tab. Have you tried unticking the 'regular expression' box
> in the search/replace area? (I don't have UltraEdit, but those are the
> things I'd try in TextPad)
>
Thanks. The copy/paste trick worked, but it turns out that what *wasn't*
working was the option to replace the string in all open files. When I
chose to do it in just the current file, it worked, so maybe it's an
UltraEdit issue.
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