[thelist] CF: Regex CRLF in Studio?

[Steve Lewis]

Frank wrote:

> Thanks, but that wasn't quite it. The point that I'm making is that 
> ColdFusion Studio (5) 's extended search function (the one that's 
> meant to handle regex) doesn't seem to accept standard notation for 
> escaping special characters. What I'm trying to figure out is if there 
> is a specific notation that represents special characters such as 
> tabs, carriage returns, line feeds and so on.

What I would do is find an instance (or create one) of whatever extended 
string I wanted to replace, with special characters embedded, then Alt-C 
(copy) and Alt-V (paste) it into the extended search and replace.  those 
'special characters' appear as non-printable characters.  I do not know 
of a a programatic way to generate a tab inside the search-replace 
window and I never got it to work when I tried either, so I would just 
go copy a tab and paste it into the window.

Steve