how to search for ALT+ characters

Thanks for the very detailed reply. One of the reasons I love to use SPFLite is that I can use the exclude all command and then a find command and then exclude certain patterns and just work with the unexcluded lines. I can then use the change command to change just those unexcluded lines.

My file has thousands of Ω characters in it. These a grouped into about 10 different patterns. Trying to do anything like this in something like Notepad is next to impossible unless I'm missing something somewhere.

I will play around with F X'EA'.

Thanks again,
Bill

OK... good to know. I don't get an error message when opening the file that has the Ω characters. There is a problem though. When I make a change to the file and save it, the X'A4' character is written to the file and when I open it in Notepad++ the X'A4' character is there instead of the Ω. So I will know better than to use SPFLite on this file.

Thanks again,
Bill

Thanks again Robert for the reply.

When editing this file in Notepad+ I have never specified a character set. When I edit the dataset it uses Encoding > UTF-8-BOM. It must determine the correct one to use form the file itself. That setting works just fine. Any Ω symbols remain Ω symbols after the edit.

I was just hoping SPFLite would work for me, but I can live with using Notepad++ on this file. I only wish Notepad++ had the same capabilities as SPFLite. :-)

Thanks,
Bill

Robert,

I'm thinking we really don't need to go to those lengths. I am OK with using Notepad++ for editing this file. I don't need to do this often enough to have you spend time creating this table. I do really appreciate all the help and the offer.

Thanks,
Bill