On Sep 30, 2011, at 11:40 AM, mweisman wrote:
> I have some very long sql queries that are stored in a single line
> with statements separated by a ; to get around a bug in a program I
> use that limits me to single line queries. When I need to make changes
> to the queries, I like to split them out into multiple lines to make
> them readable. Most text editors allow me to do a find and replace to
> replace ';' with ';\n' to split them out. BBEdit just inserts a
> literal '\n' in place of a new line, even when I have the grep button
> clicked.
>
> Is there another way to use a new line as a replacement character?
Use '\r' in your search. If your file is Unix text (or saved as such) it will
be saved as a newline ('\n').
BBEdit's '\r' convention took some getting used to when I switched to the Mac.
I assume it is a holdover from the classic Mac days, where text files were
carriage-return delimited.
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Rod Buchanan
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