HP NonStop G-Series User Manual

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CHANGE Command

EDIT Command Summary

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058061 Tandem Computers Incorporated

CHANGE Command

The CHANGE command has both of these capabilities:

Change occurrences of an existing character string to a new character
string in a specified range of lines

Change designated columns to a character string in a specified range of
lines.

What to Enter

The syntax of the CHANGE command to change an existing string to a
new string is:

{[WORD]

CHANGE [ QUIET ] {[BOTH] "oldstring"[

newstring ]" }

[range-specifier]

{[ALL ] }

The syntax of the CHANGE command to change columns to a string is:

CHANGE [ QUIET ] { column-range-list "

newstring" }

[ range-specifier ]

QUIET

tells the EDIT program not to list lines as they are changed. If you omit
QUIET, the EDIT program lists each line as it is changed.

WORD

tells the EDIT program to change all the occurrences of

oldstring

that constitute a word. A word is defined as (1) any character string that
is preceded and followed by a space or any character other than a
number or letter or (2) a character string that occurs at the end of a line.
If you omit WORD, the EDIT program changes all occurrences of

oldstring

to

newstring

. (See Example 5, following.)

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