Find and Replace

There are several types of search that are used to find and edit various code parts in development environment.

Find

To open the search dialog box:

• Select the Edit > Find main menu item.

• Press CTRL+F.

• Click the Search button on the toolbar in the web application.

In the Find box specify text to search, select necessary search parameters, specify search scope and click the Find Next/ Find Next button or press the ENTER key. If the search has been successful, the cursor moves to the found line and the searched text is highlighted in this line.

To continue the search, click the Find Next/ Find Next button or press the ENTER key. To return to the previous search result, in the web application click the Find Previous button.

When the end of a unit or a form is reached, the search starts from the beginning. An appropriate information message is displayed when the search reaches its beginning.

If the search fails, the "No line occurrence has been found" message is displayed.

Find in Units

To search for all units or forms of an active repository in the desktop application:

• Select the Edit > Find in Units main menu item.

• Press CTRL+SHIFT+F.

In the web application open the Find in Units panel.

Clicking the Find All button or pressing the ENTER key runs the search. The search results are displayed in the Search Results window at the bottom of the development environment window.

Replace

To open the search dialog box:

• Select the Edit > Replace main menu item.

• Click the Search button on the toolbar, then click the Replace button on the search bar in the web application.

• Press CTRL+H.

Type the text for search in the Find What box. In the Replace With/Replace box enter the text to replace the found text with.

Clicking the Replace/ Replace button for the first time finds the first match for the searched text. If the search has been successful, the cursor moves to the found line and the searched text is highlighted in this line. Clicking the Replace/ Replace button for the second time replaces the found text and finds the next match.

Clicking the Replace All/ Replace All button replaces all found line matches.

Find and Replace Parameters

• Match Case/ Match Case. Distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters.

• Match Whole Word/ Match Whole Word. Search for a whole word or subline.

• Search Up. Search from the place where pointer shows to the beginning of the unit.

• Current Unit. Search only in the unit, for which the dialog box has been opened.

• All Opened Units. Search in the current unit as well as in all opened units.

• Only in Selected. Search only in selected range of unit lines.

NOTE. To select search scope in the web application, use the drop-down menu of the Search Type button.

Search Results

The Search Results dialog box in the desktop application and the Find in Units panel in the web application display search results according to repository unit codes.

The dialog box/panel display the following information:

• The full text of the line where the element was found

• The correct identifier of the unit or form where the element was found

• The number of line where the text was found.

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