[StrongED] Re: S & R query

["Richard Torrens (lists)" <Lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <9572c7b756.Alan.Adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Alan Adams <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > White = '\t\x0A '  - so includes \t and $

> In the StrongHelp it looks like /r/xOA, but it's difficult to be sure 
> in the typeface used.

\s = white
It includes space, TAB, and the characters used for Newline in the
document.

> So that's tab followed by linefeed - that doesn't fit my definition of 
> whitespace, which would be any combination of tab and space 
> characters.

> Would {\t|\x20} work, i.e. would each character be matched against one 
> of the options?

{..} defines a repeat. | means OR

A set is in single quotes. See
http://diy.Torrens.org/RO/StrongED/man/search_adv.html#sets
http://diy.Torrens.org/RO/StrongED/man/search_adv.html#ownchar

'\t\x20' is probably what you want.

I am keen to get people using the html instructions as if I haven't
explained things simply enough I need to keep working on them!

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