I'm not familiar with the "&" approach! For a regular-expression method, I'd
use

find: ^\(
replace: \r(

"^" matches "start-of-line"
"\(" matches a literal left-paren (usually parens, without the backslash,
start a sub-expression for matching)
"\r" is a macintosh newline character (carriage return)
"(" inserts the paren we "replaced" in the find-field



On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:06 AM, PaulL <luckas@[Protected]> wrote:

> Found it - "&" - sorry.
>
> On Jul 30, 1:22 pm, PaulL <luc...@cyllene.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> > I'm trying find a way to insert a blank line (or lines) above text
> > that starts with a particular character. E.g., Every line that starts
> > with a left parenthesis needs to have a blank line inserted above it.
> > I don't know what to specify as my replacement - given that each of
> > the lines may contain different characters after the parenthesis.
>
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