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Working with the Scan & Replace Dictionary

The F10 key displays the Scan & Replace Dictionary screen, as shown in the following illustration. This screen allows you to scan the entire dictionary for a particular string, then replace that string with a new string.

Scan & Replace Dictionary

Scan string               _____________________________                          

Replacement String _____________________________

If too long?           __ Truncate/Ignore

All dictionaries?     __ Yes/No

Enter=Change All  F3=Exit  F10=Prev. Values  F12=Previous

• The Truncate/Ignore flag controls what happens if the replacement string is longer than the scan string, and this makes the result after substitution longer than the maximum allowed.

  Either the result is truncated and made to fit into the field, or the entry is ignored and not changed (the default is to truncate).

• The All dictionaries flag controls whether all dictionaries (for example, panels, user messages, and conditions) are scanned or just the current dictionary.
• The F10 key displays the previous scan values if this function has been used previously during the current session.

  If the scan string occurs several times in the entry, only the first occurrence will be replaced. To make multiple scans, press the F10 key to recall the values, then scan again; the Update flag is set (or re-set) appropriately.

  Note: Unlike the Change all facility for duplicate literals and conditions, this function does change entries that have been updated previously.