You can search for various metacharacters in the MOE as follows :
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CTRL F (or Edit→Find) to open the Find dialogue.
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Tick the box marked Regular expressions in the Options section.
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In the Text to find editbox, type in one (or more) of the characters in the table below.
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Click OK.
| Type this | To search for this |
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| \r | Carriage return |
| \n | New line (Line feed) |
| \f | Form feed (page feed) |
| \t | Tab character |
| \b | Backspace |
| \s | Whitespace character |
| \S | Space |
| . (a dot) | Any single character. For example, c.b matches cab, cob, and cub. |
| [] | Any one of the characters in the brackets, or any range of characters separated by a hyphen, or a character class operator. |
| [ ^ ] | Any character that EXCEPTING those after the caret. For example, c[^u]b will match cab and cob, but not cub. |
| ^ | Start of a line. |
| $ | End of a line (but not the line break characters) |
| * | Matches none or more of the preceding characters or expressions. For example, bo*t matches bt, bot, and boot. |
| ? | Matches zero or one of the preceding characters or expressions. For example, bo?t matches bt, bot, but not boot. |
| + | Matches one or more of the preceding characters or expressions. For example, bo+t matches bot, and boot but not bt. |
The above table is stolen blatently from the TOAD help file. The topic is named Regular Expression Searches. Other help topics on this subject are :
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Character Classes
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Metacharacters
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Examples of Regular Expressions
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