The replace facility has similar options as the search facility. In addition a replacement string is supplied. The search text is saved and previous search strings can be retrieved from the combo box by pressing down arrow or clicking on the combo box button to the right of the search box. These strings are common between the Search and The Replace dialogs.

The replace dialog is only available in edit mode in the foreground program. It can be invoked from the keyboard with SHIFT F3. A count of the number of substitutions made will appear on the status bar.

Replace dialog box:

The replace dialog can perform one of three actions represented by the "Find Next", "Replace" and "Replace All" buttons.

• Find Next - Simply performs a search without a replace. Keeps dialog active.
• Replace - Finds the next matching string and replaces it. Keeps dialog active.
• Replace All - Finds every occurrence of the matching string and replaces them all in one go.

Search Options

The search text can contain regular expressions and may optionally be case insensitive. It is always case insensitive if the search is restricted to symbols only. Currently wildcard characters are supported in the search string only and not in the replacement string. Also searches on symbols don't use regular expressions but use only * and ? wildcards. Therefore performing a symbol search and replace from "*gb*" to "*xy*" would replace all variables containing the characters "gb" with "*xy*".

Search Type

See the search dialog descriptions of Search Type.