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'' Tips from Marco ''

The DataFlex Studio has the possibility to use regular expressions in the Find dialog.

This opens the possibility to search for very specific things.


==== Find <xx> Table ====

Useful is

<source lang="dataflex">

find .. Customer
</source>

where the . is any character, so eq gt ge etc.

If you also have and would like to find any number of spaces then you can extend it by \s for a space character followed by one or more with a +

<source lang="dataflex">

find\s+..\s+customer

</source>


==== Looking for a function that has a number as the parameter ====

<source lang="dataflex">
function .* number .* returns
</source>

Basically, the . is any character and the * is any occurrence of the previous character.
So it is matching:
 "function"
 space
 any characters
 "number"
 space
 any characters
 space
 "returns" 

==== Find old subroutines ====
<source lang="dataflex">
^\w+:
</source>

 ^ is start at character 1 on the line
 \w is a word character
 + is one of more of the previous
 : is exactly that, a ':'

So this finds
<source lang="dataflex">
Start:
Start_A:
Start_5:

</source>

But not if there is a space before the word or a space between the word character and the :

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