Can Query handle lower case? Seems to me it converts everything to upper
case when trying a REPL command.

Mark

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> From: John Zoltak <[log in to unmask]>
> To: 'Mark Gross' <[log in to unmask]>; 'HP3000-L'
<[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] Query Variable use in search and replace
> Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 11:59 AM
>
> Mark,
>
> A technique that I use in QUERY (when I'm not in the mood to write yet
> another program for something that's supposed to be a one-time thing) is
> to report the values to a file in such a way that the file can be XEQ'd
> from Query to replace the values after using QUAD to replace the "UFD"
> with "uF". For example
>
> OUT=LP
> R
> D1,"F KEY=",6; D1,KEY-ITEM,12 (assuming key is 6 chars long)
> D2,"REPL,DATA-ITEM=""",16; D2,DATA-ITEM,26; (assuming data-item is 10
> chars) D2,"""";END",31
> NOPAGE;END
> OUT=TERM
>
> use quad or whatever to change the values then
>
> XEQ TheFile
>
> Note also that this only works when you can uniquely identify the target
> record. Anyway, you get the idea. I've done many variations on this.
>
> Hope this helps
> John Zoltak
> North American Mfg Co
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Mark Gross [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent:       Friday, September 11, 1998 10:38 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject:    [HP3000-L] Query Variable use in search and replace
> >
> > maybe I'm using the wrong tool here, but has anyone found a way using
> > Query
> > to replace a image field value
> > that requires use of a variable? The following example shows what I
> > want to
> > do.
> >
> > 1. find all occurrences of the substring "UFD" in the 60 character
> > field
> > EXTDESC
> > 2. change "UFD" to "uF"
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark Gross
> > Emerson Motion Control
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