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Quoted Strings

Use a quoted string to find a string that includes special characters. A quoted string must begin and end with apostrophes (single quotes) or quotation marks (double quotes). These examples show where to use a quoted string:

• The string contains blanks, commas, apostrophes or quotation marks
• The string contains a FIND keyword parameter or a column indicator
• The string is a single asterisk

Examples

This command finds the string go to, which contains a blank:

Command ===> find "go to"

This command finds an asterisk:

Command ===> find '*'

This command finds the first occurrence of all:

Command ===> find 'all' first

This command finds all occurrences of first

Command ===> find all 'first'