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- CHANGE Michael J. Mefford
- Command 1986/No. 19
-
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-
- Purpose: Performs a rapid search-and-replace operation
- for text strings and/or ASCII decimal codes
- throughout a file of maximum 40,000-byte
- length.
-
- Format: CHANGE filespec findstring replacestring
-
- Remarks: The filespec parameter may include a drive
- letter and a path in addition to the
- designated filename.
-
- Findstring and replacestring may consist of
- text characters enclosed within (double)
- quote marks or ASCII decimal codes whose
- numbers are separated by commas. Note that
- the format requires that each parameter be
- separated by a single space. Text strings in
- quotes and ASCII values in numerals may be
- combined in either string if separated by
- commas.
-
- Example: To change all references to Miss Jones to
- Mrs. Smith in the file NOGOSSIP.ART on the
- current directory, you would enter
-
- CHANGE NOGOSSIP.ART "Miss Jones" "Mrs. Smith"
-
- Example: To strip out all carriage return-line feeds
- (i.e. replace them with a null string) in the
- file MCI.B16 in the \COMM subdirectory, enter
-
- CHANGE \COMM\MCI.B16 13,10 ""
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. In the second example you might want to
- use a space between the quote marks
- rather than a null string to keep the
- words from running together. Observe
- that by putting the number of the month
- in hexadecimal (B=November) you can fit
- both month and day within the three-
- character DOS filename extension.