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CHANGE Command

EDIT Command Summary

058061 Tandem Computers Incorporated

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BOTH

tells the EDIT program to change both uppercase and lowercase
occurrences of

oldstring

to

newstring

. If you omit BOTH, the EDIT

program changes only the occurrences of

oldstring

that exactly

match what you type. (See Examples 3, 5, and 6, following.)

ALL

tells the EDIT program to change all occurrences of

oldstring

to

newstring

in a given line. If you omit ALL, the EDIT program

changes only the first occurrence of

oldstring

in a line. (See

Examples 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6, following.)

oldstring

is a character string that exists in your EDIT file. You can enclose

oldstring

within two right slants (/) or single apostrophes (’) as well

as within quotation marks.

newstring

is the character string that replaces

oldstring

or is the character

string that replaces the existing text in the specified columns. You can
enclose

newstring

within two right slants (/) or single apostrophes (’)

as well as within quotation marks.

column-range-list

references a single column or one or more groups of columns, delimited
by pairs of column numbers, in one line of an EDIT file. Turn to
“Column-Range-List Parameter” in Section 5 for a full explanation of
this range.

range-specifier

indicates combinations of line-range and string-range parameters. Turn
to “Range-Specifier Parameter” in Section 5 for a full explanation of this
range.

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