Editing a Source File > COBOL Editor

20 Find/Replace

[Find/Replace] can be selected from the [Edit] menu or context menu to find or replace a keyword.
Pressing [Ctrl+F] keys or clicking on the toolbar performs the same operation.

+ Find a keyword

1. Select [Edit] > [Find/Replace] from the menu bar. The [Find/Replace] dialog box is displayed.

   

2. Enter the target keyword in [Find].
3. Click [Find]. The keyword, if found, is highlighted in the editor.

+Replace with a character string

1. Select [Edit] > [Find/Replace] from the menu bar. The [Find/Replace] dialog box is displayed.
2. Enter the target keyword in [Find] and the replacement character string for the keyword in [Replace With].
3. Click [Replace] to search for and replace the keyword found in text.

• The [Find/Replace] dialog box has the following detail setting items.

  Forward	Searches downward, starting from the cursor position (forward).
  Backward	Search upward, starting from the cursor position (backward).
  All	Searches the whole file.
  Selected Lines	Searches the selected range in the file.
  Case Sensitive	Searches for the keyword while distinguishing between uppercase and lowercase letters.
  Wrap Search	Searches the file repeatedly until the search is canceled.
  Whole Word	Searches for words that are a complete match.
  Incremental	Finds the character strings in the file that satisfy the specified search characters.

• Click [Replace All]. All the matching character strings are replaced.
• Click [Replace/Find]. The character string found to match and searches for the next matching character string is replaced.