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Qualifiers

Parameter

/DIALOG

/PATTERN

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:

QualifiersParameter

Qualifiers

=TITLE Qualifiers

Additional information available:

/DIALOG/PATTERN

/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.

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