

How do I find for any lowercase alphabetic character?ġ4. Use picture string How do I find for any uppercase alphabetic character?ġ3. How do I find for any alphabetic character?Ī. How do I find for any non-numeric character?ġ1. “F p‘#'” finds the next numeric character and “F ‘PAGE #’ will find the next instance of the string ‘page followed by a blank followed by 2 numeric characters’.ġ0.

How do I find for any numeric character?Ī. E.g., “F P‘^’ 36″ will find the next non-blank characters in column 36.ĩ. How do I find for any non-blank characters?Ī. For e.g., F C’FindMe’ will find all FindMe strings only if the case matches.Ĩ. Just, enclose the search-string within quotes and have a letter C in front of the string itself. How do I do case sensitive search find for a given search-string?Ī. How do I search for a value say ‘0980312’ stored in comp-3 format?ħ. It’s default direction.į ‘job’ finds for string ‘job’ in forward direction.įrom the beginning of the file: F ‘job’ FIRST finds the first instance of sting ‘job’ in the file.Ĭount of all instances in file ALL F ‘job’ FIRST finds the first instance of sting ‘job’ in the file and gives total-no-of-instances of sting ‘job’ in the file.Ħ. your current cursor position)?īackward PREV F ‘job’ PREV finds for string ‘job’ in backward directionįorward No need to mention any keyword. How do I specify the direction of search i.e., how do I search for a string in backward / forward direction (w.r.t. E.g., ‘f job word’ will find for the whole word ‘job’.ĥ. Use keyword ‘word’ at the end of find command. I want to find for an instance of a search-string that is whole word by itself. I want to find for a search-string that is Not prefix/suffix of another word. How do I go to a particular line numbers?Ī. ‘nx’ will restrict the search only to the displayed lines.ģ. Now I want to see only those lines that contain a particular value in the display I get after doing an ‘X all, F all’.Ī. Also, command ?Del all x? can be used to delete all the un-displayed lines.Ģ.

Type ‘X all’ then ‘F all ‘search-string’. How do I see only those lines that contain a particular string?Ī. O Overlay this line with moved/copied Linesġ. ‘text’ n Change any special character in column n to specified textĬ p‘^’ ‘text’ n Change any non-blank character in column n to specified textĬ p‘.’ ‘text’ n Change any invalid character in column n to specified textĬ p‘-‘ ‘text’ n Change any non-numeric character in column n to specified textĬ p‘’ ‘text’ n Change any upper-case character in column n to specified textĬ x’nn’ ‘nn’ n Change hex numbers nn to literal number nn : Prefix to execute line command as a primary command on specified lineĬ p‘=’ ‘text’ n Change any character in column n to specified textĬ ‘text’ n Change any alphabetic character in column n to specified textĬ p‘#’ ‘text’ n Change any numeric character in column n to specified text PASTE name KEEP Pastes contents of clipboard to dataset (saves lines in clipboard) PASTE name Pastes contents of clipboard to dataset (deletes lines from clipboard) SORT n y Sort dataset based on contents of columns n through yĭELETES ‘text’ nn Deletes all lines with text string in column nnĬUT name Places marked lines in clipboard HEX OFF Reverts hex characters to stored format HEX ON Displays hex characters in readable format RECOVERY ON Sets up edit dataset so that changes can be undoneĬAN / CANCEL Exits from dataset without saving any changes

X ‘text1’ all nn Excludes (hides) all lines with text string in column nnįLIP Displays previously excluded lines, hides previously displayed lines X ‘text1’ all Excludes (hides) all lines with text string C ‘text1’ ‘text2’ Changes next occurrence of text stringĬ ‘text1’ ‘text2’ all Changes all occurrences of text stringĬ ‘text1’ ‘text2’ all nn Changes all occurrences of text string in column nnĬ ‘text1’ ‘text2’ all X Changes all occurrences of text string in excluded linesĬ ‘text1’ ‘text2’ all NX Changes all occurrences of text string in Non excluded linesĬ ‘text1’ ‘text2’ first Changes first occurrences of text stringĬ ‘text1’ ‘text2’ prev Changes previous occurrences of text stringĬ ‘text1’ ‘text2’ last Changes last occurrences of text string
