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IMAGE Command

EDIT Command Summary

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string-range-list

references one or more character strings in one or more lines of an EDIT
file. Turn to “String-Range-List Parameter” in Section 5 for a full
explanation of this range.

RANGE

is a keyword that tells EDIT to look for the “string” in the indicated
line-range or string-range.

How to Use IMAGE

The IMAGE command works as follows:

If you use the “lstring”newstring“rstring” form of the command, for
each line in the range, the EDIT program searches for the left string
(

lstring

). If it finds

lstring

, then the EDIT program searches for the

right string (rstring). (The right string must occur to the right of the left
string.) If the EDIT program finds both

lstring

and

rstring

, all the

characters in the line segment bounded by these two strings are
replaced by new text (

newstring

).

If you use the END “lstring” newstring” form of the command, for each
line in range, the EDIT program searches for

lstring

. If the EDIT

program finds

lstring

, all the characters in the line segment from

lstring

to the end of the line are replaced by

newstring

. (See

Example 3, following.)

Examples

1.

The command:

*LIST 100

100 What's going on here?

*IMAGE "s "new"?" 100

100 What's new?

*

replaces the line segment bound by the string

s(space)

on the left and

?

on the right with the string

new

.

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