[Info-vax] SEARCH ''

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

I had occasion to SEARCH for the string '' in a file.

Is there any way to do this?  (It gets expanded as an empty symbol; I 
don't know how to prevent that.)

Related question: SEARCH/STAT gives me the record count, not the number 
of times the string appears in the file, so they are not the same if it 
occurs more than once on one line.  Is there any way to get that 
information from SEARCH?  (A workaround is to replace the string with 
itself in EDT and look at the count displayed.)