Language Sensitive Editor Menu SEARCH — VMS LSE_3.0
=TITLE SEARCH
Searches the current buffer for the specified string
and positions the cursor at that string.
Format
SEARCH search-string
Additional information available:
Qualifiers
=TITLE Qualifiers
Additional information available:
/DIALOG
/DIALOG
/NODIALOG (D)
Instructs LSE to use a dialog box to prompt the user
for parameters and qualifier values. The command
parameters are optional if you specify this qualifier.
If you supply command parameters and qualifiers with
the /DIALOG qualifier, these parameters and qualifiers
are used to set the initial state of the dialog box.
LSE ignores the /DIALOG qualifier if you are using a
character-cell terminal.
/PATTERN
/PATTERN
/NOPATTERN (D)
Enables or disables special interpretation of wildcard
characters and a quote character in the search-string
parameter. You can set the syntax for specifying a
pattern to the VMS style or ULTRIX style.
VMS-Style Wildcards
Wildcard Matches
* One or more characters of any kind on a
line.
** One or more characters of any kind
crossing lines.
% A single character.
\< Beginning of a line.
\> End of a line.
\[set-of- Any character in the specified set. For
characters] example, \[abc] matches any letter in the
set "abc" and \[c-t] matches any letter
in the set "c" through "t."
\[~set-of- Anything not in the specified set of
characters] characters.
\ Lets you specify the characters \,*,%
or ] within wildcard expressions.
For example, \\ matches the backslash
character (\).
\. Repeats the previous pattern zero or more
times, including the original.
\: Repeats the previous pattern at least
once, including the original; that is, a
null occurrence does not match.
\w Any empty space created by the space bar
or tab stops, including no more than one
line break.
\d Any decimal digit.
\o Any octal digit.
\x Any hexadecimal digit.
\a Any alphabetic character, including
accented letters, other marked letters,
and non-English letters.
\n Any alphanumeric character.
\s Any character that can be used in a
symbol: alphanumeric, dollar sign, and
underscore.
\l Any lowercase letter.
\u Any uppercase letter.
\p Any punctuation character.
\f Any formatting characters: backspace,
tab, line feed, vertical tab, form feed,
and carriage return.
\^ Any control character.
\+ Any character with bit 7 set; that is,
ASCII decimal values from 128 through
255.
ULTRIX-Style Wildcards
Wildcard Matches
. A single character.
^ Beginning of a line.
$ End of a line.
[set-of- Any character in the specified set. For
characters] example, [abc] matches any letter in the
set "abc" and [c-t] matches any letter in
the set "c" through "t."
[^set-of- Anything not in the specified set of
characters] characters.
\ Lets you specify the characters
\,.,^,$,[,],or * in wildcard expressions.
For example, \\ matches the backslash
character (\).
* Repeats the previous pattern zero or more
times, including the original.
+ Repeats the previous pattern at least
once, including the original; that is, a
null occurrence does not match.
When you specify the /NOPATTERN qualifier (or when
it is the default), special interpretation of the
asterisk, percent sign, and backslash characters is
disabled.
Parameter
=TITLE Parameter search-string Specifies a quoted string indicating the string to search for. If you are using the DECwindows interface and specify the /DIALOG qualifier, the search string field in the Find dialog box takes the default value from the the previous search string, if any.