Re: Finding Strings starting with blanks in Code

That worked as long as the character I was starting with was not a blank.
ddh
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From: <Jeff@VTINFO.COM>
To: <CODE400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: Finding Strings starting with blanks in Code


>
> If you press the Options button on the Find window, you can search within
> specific columns.  In your case I guess you would want to search only in
> columns 19-20.
>
> Jeff Morrill
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>                     "Dwight HoganCamp"
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>                     06/20/01 03:38 PM
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> I tried both the double and single quote. What I am finding right now is
> that if I want to find a character string other than blanks, I can enter
> the
> string and it finds it.
>
> Right now I am trying to insert prefixes in front of fields names in DDS.
I
> need to specify the blank because I want to insert it at Position 19. The
> character string in 19 & 20 where I am inserting may be repeated in the
> field and some attempts I have made have inserted the prefix two or three
> times in the name which is undesirable.
>
> I know there are no blanks in the name so if I scan for <space>PC it will
> get the beginning of the field name.
>
> I have tried both single and double quotes around it like we used to do in
> SEU, and I have tried <space> PC like someone suggested, and I tried just
> typing in a space. I had the same result each time "string - not found".
>
> Thanks for any input you may have
>
> Dwight @ Ruger
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <batthish@ca.ibm.com>
> To: <CODE400-L@midrange.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Finding Strings starting with blanks in Code
>
>
> > Hi Dwight,
> >
> > Are you searching in CODE using the single quote (') or double quote(")?
> > If so then that would be the reason why it is not finding the string.
> > You shoudl just be able to type the PC with the space, without any
> quotes.
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > Violaine Batthish
> > CODE/400 Project Lead
> > batthish@ca.ibm.com          IBMCA(BATTHISH)
> >
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> >
> >                     "Dwight HoganCamp"
> >                     <Dhogancamp@Ruger.       To:
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Strings
> starting with blanks in Code
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> >                     06/20/2001 02:01
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> >
> >
> >
> > Ok
> >
> > When I worked with SEU I could type either ' PC' or " PC" in the command
> > line of SEU, or on the Find/Change Options screen by pressing F14.
> >
> > When I do the same thing with Code it says there is nothing, even though
> I
> > can see what I am looking for.
> >
> > I am trying to insert XRE in front of 106 fields that starting with PC
in
> a
> > data dictionary of 1400 lines.
> >
> > I got this one to work by excluding the first 156 lines then the last
> 1138
> > lines then finding PC in 19 and 20 and replacing it with XRE.
> >
> > Is there some way to change the lines that are excluded. The SEU version
> of
> > this worked hours ago, but it didn't like me inserting more characters
> than
> > I am scanning for even with allow data to shift. So I had errors on two
> > lines that way.
> >
> > Once I finally got code to work, it changed just the ones I wanted the
> way
> > I
> > wanted them. Nice job on that one, but it is still too cumbersome.
> >
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