Q51324: Searching in the M Editor with Regular Expressions

Article: Q51324
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 1.00 1.02 | 1.00 1.02
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 30-NOV-1989

Question:

When using the M Editor, every time I execute a search command using a
Regular Expression, the editor takes the command literally and doesn't
recognize the textarg as a Regular Expression. How can I get this
search to work?

Response:

The correct method is as follows:

      arg arg textarg <search_function>

              arg -> ALT+A
          textarg -> A Regular Expression (i.e., ^S[te].*end)
<search_function> -> Psearch, Msearch, Replace, Qreplace

For more information, see Chapter 5, Pages 51-63, in the "Microsoft
FORTRAN Microsoft Editor User's Guide."

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