[Info-vax] SEARCH ''

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <ss4r90$1q7m$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, hb <end.of at inter.net> writes:

> On 1/17/22 21:52, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> > 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.)

> Maybe this helps:
> $ cre x.txt
> quote '
> two quotes ''
>   Exit
> $
> $ one:="'"
> $ two=one+one
> $ search x.txt &two
> two quotes ''
> $

Brilliant!  Works great!