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tcurrier · Intermediate Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 188 Topics: 68

Without writing a macro, is there a 'built in' way to do
a find specifying multiple values ?

For example, I want to find the values 'A' or 'C' below :

Terry_Heinze · Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:12 pm Post subject:

As far as I know, not with a single command but "f a all;f c all" should do it.
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papadi · Supermod Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 594 Topics: 1

Terry_Heinze · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:22 pm Post subject:

It will also find any As, if there ARE any. I don't understand what you're saying.
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RonB · Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:17 am Post subject:

I believe that he means that even if there ARE any 'A' lines, that the subsequent, concatenated FIND C ALL will turn off highlighting on any 'A' lines that were found with the first of the concatenated commands, and only the 'C' lines will be highlighted.
Perhaps you meant to or assumed that all lines had been excluded (X ALL) before issuing the FIND commands? If so, then all found 'A' lines and 'C' lines will be visible, and all other lines will remain excluded.
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papadi · Supermod Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 594 Topics: 1

Terry_Heinze · Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 8:49 pm Post subject:

Yes, I should have had an "x all" before the 2 find commands. And, as RonB says, finding all the Cs will NOT hide the As that were previously found.
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tcurrier · Intermediate Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 188 Topics: 68

Well, bottom line is that your suggestion works:

Thanks!

Grant · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:07 pm Post subject:

or create your own, let's call it FX

ISREDIT MACRO (PARM1 PARM2) NOPROCESS
ISREDIT EXCLUDE ALL
IF &LASTCC = 0 THEN
ISREDIT FIND &PARM1 ALL
ISREDIT FIND &PARM2 ALL
EXIT CODE(&MAXCC)

type: FX 'A' 'C' (will exclude all lines and then find all occurrences of A and/or C)

tcurrier · Intermediate Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 188 Topics: 68

Thanks... neat idea... I'm getting the following error, though :

Grant · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:34 pm Post subject:

might need to put (PARM1 PARM2) in brackets