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Re: wildcard question/Xy4 to RTF



Reply to note from Bill Troop  Sat, 04 Aug 2001
18:00:35 -0400

> I'm writing a program in Xy4/DOS. I need to put in the
> wildcards in a search string for CR and TAB.

For the "wild" carriage return, execute FUNC WC with the cursor
where you want it.

There's no Tab wildcard. Just put a regular tab. Use BX...Q2, not
BC...XC. A regular tab won't work with BC...XC; you need a 3-byte
tab -- but why bother? BX...Q2 is better all around.

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Carl Distefano
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