FIND ISPF/PDF Edit Macro Command

FIND command is used to find a search string in any or selected display lines.

ISREDIT FIND str {col1 {col2 } }
                 {label1 label2}
                              {NEXT } {ALL } {FIRST} {LAST } {PREV}
                              {CHARS } {PREFIX} {SUFFIX} {WORD }
                              {X} {NX}

• 'str' is the string that will be searched for.

• 'col1' and 'col2' are optional range of column numbers that may be used to limit the search done by the FIND command.

• 'label1 label2' parameter identifies two labels that specify a range of lines that will searched by the FIND macro command. The defaults are the labels .ZFIRST and .ZLAST.

• The default 'NEXT' parameter indicates the search will begin at the next position after the cursor and will scan forward to the next occurrence.

• The 'ALL' parameter indicates the search will begin at the top of the data and will scan ahead to find all occurrences of the string.

• The 'FIRST' parameter indicates the search will begin at the top of the data, but it will stop at the first occurrence of the string.

• The 'LAST' parameter indicates the search will begin at the bottom of the data and scan backwards to locate the last occurrence of the string.

• The 'PREV' parameter indicates the search will begin at the current cursor location and scan backward to locate the previous occurrence of the string.

• The 'PREFIX' parameter indicates the string must be found as a prefix of a word.

• The 'SUFFIX' parameter indicates the string must be found as a suffix of a word.

• The default 'CHARS' parameter indicates the string may be found anywhere the characters match.

• The parameter 'WORD' indicates the string will be found when it is surrounded by blanks, or other alphanumeric characters, on both sides.

• The 'X' parameter indicates only excluded lines are searched. The 'NX' parameter indicates only non-excluded lines are searched.

String to be searched is any one of the following Simple string - Not case sensitive

Hex string - eg. X'c27B'

Character string - Case sensitive (start with 'c') eg. C'Don' Picture string - starts with 'p' eg. 'P'

Example:

The following are examples of the FIND macro command.

Example 1:

Find lines that contain the letters THEN,

ISREDIT FIND C'THEN'

Example 2:

Find first line between .A and .C with prefix of THEN:

ISREDIT FIND THEN .A .C FIRST PREFIX

Example 3:

Find last excluded line from .A to .B with suffix of THEN:

ISREDIT FIND THEN .A .B LAST SUFFIX X

Example 4:

Find the first preceding non-excluded line within labels

.A and .C with a word equal to THEN in columns 1 through 5.

ISREDIT FIND THEN .A .C PREV WORD 1 5 NX

Example 5:

Find all the 4 digit numerals in 8 th column

"ISREDIT F P'####' 8 ALL"

Example 6:

Find all strings matching the pattern '-anteil-' followed by 2 digit number.

"ISREDIT F P'-anteil-##' ALL"

Return Code:

Possible return codes are:

• 0: The command or statement ended successfully.

• 4: The search string was not found.

• 12: An error was detected with the syntax.

• 20: A critical error has occurred.

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