Search and replace ^L character

[John Musa]

I converted a pdf to txt and it left a number of ^L highlighted blue, some are ^L alone which I removed, are others are embedded at the start of a word ^Lxyz. How do I write a search and replace for the latter? Thanks

[Reid Thompson]

On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 19:33 -0700, John Musa wrote:
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> I converted a pdf to txt and it left a number of ^L highlighted blue, some are ^L alone which I removed, are others are embedded at the start of a word ^Lxyz. How do I write a search and replace
> for the latter? Thanks
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does
:g/^L/s///g

not work?

^L is created by CTRL-V L