Syntax Rules

Note the following conditions when using the FIND browse command:

You can specify FIND command parameters (parameter strings, column delimiters, indicators, and limit parameters, which are described in this chapter) in any order.
You can separate FIND command parameters by either spaces or commas.
You can enclose text strings that you want to find in single quotation marks or double quotation marks.
Always enclose text strings that contain special characters, such as an asterisk or a blank, in quotation marks.

Examples

In the following examples (which are all functionally equivalent), the user wants to find the suffix TION between columns 20 and 40 (inclusive):

F TION PREV SUFFIX 20 40
FIND PREV SUFFIX "TION" 20 40
F 'TION' 20,40 SUFFIX PREV
FIND 20,40,PREV,SUFFIX,TION
F PREV 20 40 'TION' SUFFIX