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Finding Text HP EDIT provides several commands that help you find specific characters or strings of text. You can also search for a text pattern and replace it with substitute text. Finding A Character You can quickly locate a single character using one of the [REV BEG]eight [REV END] Find commands. These commands search in the indicated direction for a particular character. You can also locate the matching companion for a delimiter, such as one bracket of a pair of brackets. You can precede most of the Find commands with a count to locate a particular occurrence of a given character. Refer to "Text Location Commands" in chapter 3 for more information about these commands. Searching And Replacing To search for a particular text segment, you first define the pattern of text you want to locate using the Define Search Pattern command. If you want to replace the located text with other text, you can define the replacement text using the Define Replace Pattern command. After defining the search pattern, you can execute either the Search Forward or Search Backward command. If you want to replace text and have defined a replacement pattern, you can execute the Search And Replace Forward or Search And Replace Backward command. HP EDIT also provides commands to perform global search and replace functions. Refer to "Text Location Commands" in chapter 3 for more information about these commands. Pattern-Matching Characters. Special pattern-matching characters assist you in defining search patterns more general than simple matching strings. If you prefer, you can disable the pattern-matching characters from the Set Options screen so that HP EDIT interprets the characters literally during search and replace operations. Refer to the Define Search Pattern command in chapter 4 for a detailed explanation of pattern-matching characters. Defining Patterns from Macros. Besides defining the search and replace patterns directly from the keyboard, you can define them from within a macro using special commands provided for this purpose. When HP EDIT encounters one of these commands in a macro, HP EDIT suspends macro execution, enabling you to define the search or replace patterns from the keyboard. Refer to "Macro Commands" in chapter 3 for specific information about these macro commands that pause for your input.