Re: Filter selection question, was rpg400-l:Naming Global Variables

[adrian <stori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Type
  variable|BEGSR|ENDSR
in the "Find" field for the Find/Replace dialog, ensure "Regular 
expression" is checked, and press the "All" button.

AGlauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> This got me thinking - I know that if I check the 'restrict to columns' 
> box in the Find/Replace dialogue it affects the Filter Selection (try it 
> with 'D' in column 6 ... you'll find you get only D-specs, not all lines 
> that contain a 'd' or 'D').  However, I don't see a way to filter based on 
> the find string.  What I'd like to do is put the regular expression 
> "(variable | BEGSR | ENDSR)" (quotes not part of expression), then be able 
> to filter on that expression so that I get something like:
>
> D  variable
>          variable = value
> C  mySR        BEGSR
>          variable = value2
> C mySR2      BEGSR
>          clear variable
>
> and so on.  Makes it easy to see which subroutines modify a global 
> variable.
>
> Does anyone have a way of doing this?  Do you like the idea?