Selecting Items that Contain a String (FIND)

The FIND command creates a select-list of those items that contain a specified string.

Format

FIND [DICT] filename  "string" [(I)]

Parameter(s)

I

Lists the item-IDs of the selected items.

This query finds all programs in the BP file that contain the file name CUSTOMERS:

>FIND BP "CUSTOMERS"

8 ITEMS SELECTED.

>BLIST BP

BLIST prints out the eight programs selected.

See Also

Creating Select-lists

Creating a Select-list (SELECT)

Listing Items Not Included in a Select-list (NSELECT)

Creating a Select-list from Data (QSELECT)

Selecting a Specified Number of Items (SAMPLE)