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Characters have special meaning during search and replace operations.
• UNIX regular expressions - When regular expressions are turned on for a search and replace com-
mand, the backslash character ( \ ) has special meaning in the replace string. A backslash in the replace
string has the same meaning as in the search string except that \c and \:char are not supported. See
UNIX Regular Expressions for a list of backslash ( \ ) options. See Using Tagged Search Expressions for
information on specifying tagged expressions in the replace string.
• SlickEdit
®
regular expressions - When regular expressions are turned on for a search and replace
command, the number sign character ( # ) and backslash ( \ ) have special meaning in the replace string.
A backslash in the replace string has the same meaning as in the search string except that \c , :char ,
and \gd are not supported. See SlickEdit Regular Expressions for a list of backslash ( \ ) options. See
Using Tagged Search Expressions for information on specifying tagged expressions in the replace
string using the number sign ( # ) character.
• Brief regular expressions - When regular expressions are turned on for a search and replace com-
mand, the backslash character ( \ ) has special meaning in that backslash in the replace string has the
same meaning as in the search string except that \c and \:char are not supported. See Brief Regular
Expressions for a list of backslash ( \ ) options. See Using Tagged Search Expressions for information
on specifying tagged expressions in the replace string.
The following table contains some examples of replace operations using regular expressions:
Table 6.13. Examples of Replacing Using Regular Expressions
Example Description
Search For: hat$
Replace With: cat
Search for occurrences of the string "hat" that occur
at the end of a line and replace it with "cat".
UNIX and SlickEdit
®
regular expression:
Search For: ^\n
Replace With:
Brief regular expression:
Search For: <\n
Replace With:
Delete blank lines.
UNIX and SlickEdit regular expression:
Search For: ^\n\n
Replace With: \n
Brief regular expression:
Search For: <\n\n
Replace With: \n
Replace occurrences of two consecutive blank lines
with one.
UNIX regular expression:
Search for: ^a+$
Search for lines containing "a" and replace the "a"
with a formfeed character.
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