HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 111)

CHANGE Command
EDIT Command Summary
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How to Use CHANGE The quotes (“) surrounding oldstring and newstring are string-
field separators. EDIT also accepts an apostrophe (’) and a slash (/) as a
string-field separator. You must, however, use the same separator
character throughout a CHANGE command.
When you give a left column number and a right column number in a
column-range-list parameter, the right column number must be equal
to or greater than the left column number (for example, 5:5 is valid,
FIRST:LAST is valid, 15:7 is not valid). The
newstring variable is a
character string. (See “Changing Columns to a String,” Examples 1 and
2, following.)
You can specify columns 1 through 239.
Examples Changing an Existing String to a New String
1. If your current EDIT file is:
11 Tom, Tom
12 The piper's son
13 Stole a pig
14 And away he run.
15 The pig was eat
16 And Tom was beat,
17 And Tom went crying
18 Down the street.
19 Tom, Tom
20 The piper's son
21 He learned to play
22 When he was young;
23 But all the tunes
24 That he could play
25 Was "Over the hills
26 And far away."