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Poseur - 18 Jan 2005 06:52 GMT

One commonly uses "^13" for CR.
I've got some docs that have a "A0" hex character (I don't
even know what that is" but searching, either in the Find
dialog or programmatically, for "^A0" does not find it. I know
that is what it is cause I've open the document in a hex
editor.
Anyone know why that would not work? Is there another way to
designate hex characters via wildcards if they are not control
characters?
In real Regex, "\xA0" works.

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Helmut Weber - 18 Jan 2005 08:39 GMT

Hi,

that is a non breaking space,
Search for the decimal value
^0160
or
^s

Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
Helmut Weber, MVP
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Jeff - 18 Jan 2005 12:46 GMT

While on that subject, is there a universal hex wildcard for "White Space"

In British English the search character is ^w but German is ^l (or is that
^| ?)

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Helmut Weber - 18 Jan 2005 13:03 GMT

Hi Jeff,

>While on that subject, is there a universal hex wildcard for "White Space"
>
>In British English the search character is ^w but German is ^l (or is that
>^| ?)

so called, "white space" is ^w in German versions, too.
Which has nothing to do with hex or not hex.
^l Chr(108)
is a line break, in German and in English versions.
I doubt whether | Chr(124) has any meaning in wildcard searches
at all.

Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP
"red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de"
Word XP, Win 98
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Klaus Linke - 21 Jan 2005 22:34 GMT

Hi Julio,

Maybe it was 0A, not A0?

That'd be a "line feed", and you can search for ^10 (both with and without
wildcards).

Though Word usually turns those into regular paragraphs ^p anyway...
If it doesn't at first, it probably will when you save as a document.

Regards,
Klaus

> One commonly uses "^13" for CR.
> I've got some docs that have a "A0" hex character (I don't
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> Poseur
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Poseur - 22 Jan 2005 00:08 GMT

> Hi Julio,
>
> Maybe it was 0A, not A0?

Helmut steered me right. It's "non-breaking space" and the Word
symbol is ^s.

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