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FIND and Special Strings

In some cases, you may need to find a string of characters that cannot be entered in the standard format as shown above. For these cases, special strings can be entered. For example, to find the expression i = 1, which contains blank characters, enclose the string in single quotes as in the following example.

Command ===> find 'i = 1'

Five types of special strings may be specified with the FIND command:

• Quoted strings
• Hex strings
• Picture strings
• Text strings
• Character strings

These five types of special strings are described in the following sections.