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Note: You must type a separator between the command
name (LOCATE) and your data.
In the example above, a
slash
(I) is the separator. If the data to be located contains
a slash, like
VM/PC or 01/23/84, you must use a different
special character as a separator.
For example,
LOCATE$VM/PC or LOCATE%01/23/84. The
following special characters cannot be used as separators:
...,
(not), + (plus), - (minus), or . (period).
The
LOCATE command tells the editor to look through the
file, starting with the line following the current line, until it
finds
"your data."
You can change the located data using this CHANGE
command:
Change/oldword/newword/
This form of the CHANGE command changes the first
occurrence
of the old word in the current line. This is why
you used the
LOCATE command. When the editor locates
the data, it makes the line that contains it the new current
line.
Changing a Word Throughout a File: To change data
throughout a file, use this form of the
CHANGE command:
===> c/olddata/newdatal * *
The message x OCCURRENCE(S) CHANGED ON x
LINE(S) tells you how many words were changed. The
editor searched every line
of the file, from the current line to
the last, and changed "olddata" to
"newdata." Note the
format of this command.
You must type a slash (I) after the
new word (newdata), and you must type two asterisks
with a
space between them
(* *). The first asterisk tells the editor to
search every line of the file. The second tells it to change
every occurrence of the old word in each line.
After a
CHANGE command, the last line searched becomes
the new current line.
Note: Remember that the change starts with the current
line.
If you enter this kind of command when the current
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