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Date:      Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:21:31 +0200
From:      Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com>
To:        David Banning <david@skytracker.ca>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sed error "unescaped newline inside substitute pattern"
Message-ID:  <49BA880B.6050405@gmx.com>
In-Reply-To: <49BA8716.4040803@skytracker.ca>
References:  <20090312173436.GA51898@skytracker.ca> <49BA278D.5080800@gmx.com>	<49BA6DBD.2010304@skytracker.ca> <49BA838D.8010703@gmx.com> <49BA8716.4040803@skytracker.ca>

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David Banning wrote:
> I have looked at the file in vi but the problematic characters are 
> invisible there.

The problematic character is the newline character, \n, ASCII 0xA.

And, yes vi is old but it's a few months now that it supports newlines
without problems;)

Nikos






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