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by **Lai Lye Khen** » Sat, 14 Jun 1997 04:00:00

Hi,

I want to get rid of the " " in a file. I vi the file and use
"g/ /s///g" and it doesn't work. I have tried putting in "\" before the
special character but it still doesn't work. Anybody know how to solve
this?

Regards,
Lai

by **Bill Tott** » Mon, 16 Jun 1997 04:00:00

Quote:>I want to get rid of the "^]" in a file. I vi the file and use
>"g/^]/s///g" and it doesn't work. I have tried putting in "\" before the
>special character but it still doesn't work. Anybody know how to solve
>this?

You are substuting nothing for nothing every time you find an occurance
of '^]'. Try this in vi(of course '^]' is used to denote the group
separator character):

:%s/^]//g
--
Totten, William David (Bill) Computer and Information Science Major

http://pobox.com/~totten/ Friends don't let friends use emacs

by **Srinivasa Ra** » Tue, 17 Jun 1997 04:00:00

in vi-editor to get rid of all those escape (^[) characters you
mentioned I would do the following, invoke vi editor and load the file
into it then

:s/^[//g <ENTER>

to get that ^[ I type CNTRl-V [

hope that will work for you

Quote:> Hi,

> I want to get rid of the " " in a file. I vi the file and use
> "g/ /s///g" and it doesn't work. I have tried putting in "\" before the
> special character but it still doesn't work. Anybody know how to solve
> this?

> Regards,
> Lai

--

-srinu-

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