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EVE SET_FIND_WHITESPACE — VMS 5.0

 SET FIND WHITESPACE

 Sets the FIND command to treat spaces and tabs the same (that is, as
 "white space") and to span up to one line break.  Thus, a string of two or
 more words will be found even if there is a line break between two words.

 Example:

    Command                   Purpose or effects
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    1.  SET FIND WHITESPACE   Sets FIND to treat spaces and tabs the same
                              and span up to one line break.

    2.  FIND Mark Twain       Finds "Mark Twain" if there is one or more
                              spaces or tabs between the words or if "Mark"
                              is at the end of a line and "Twain" is at the
                              start of the next line.

 You may want to put SET FIND WHITESPACE in an initialization file.  The
 default is NOWHITESPACE:  that is, EVE matches spaces and tabs in the
 search string exactly, and searches do not span a line break.

 Related topics:

    FIND    SET FIND NOWHITESPACE    WILDCARD FIND

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