[GLLUG] vi question

[Daniel Hedlund]

Mark,

Mark Szidik/mlc wrote:
> Anybody know how I can search for the special character that is represented
> as ^@ in vi ?   I can't seem to use the keyboard sequence ctrl-v ctrl-@ to
> produce it.    BTW, what ascii character is this?

Your best bet might be to use vi to convert the file to hex using:
:%!xxd

That should tell you the hex representation of the character.  You can 
search on that and then you can convert the hex back to standard ascii:
:%!xxd -r

Cheers,

Daniel Hedlund
daniel at digitree.org