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Re: Substituting newline on a string

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Substituting newline on a string
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:34:02 +0100
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:34:45 -0700 (PDT)
Javier Alvarado <quijotista@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a seemingly trivial problem that I have not be able to
> solve. How do I replace a newline in a string with somethinge else, like
> ' ' (or better yet '\n')?

${string//$'\n'/\\n}

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