repeated find commands

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/29/03 11:14 AM, Scott Allen wrote:

> if I search for "bravo" first, it will be able to find "charlie" on the 
> next iteration of the loop but not "alpha".  It is like it is doing a 
> "find again" rather than a "find" in the way that many word-processors 
> work but without wrapping around to the beginning of the field again.

I haven't seen this; I thought changing the "find" parameters resets the 
find location. But...

> I'm using a workaround where before each use of "find" that I actually 
> care about, I go and find "X" in a separate field that contains only an 
> "X" which allows me to then find anything anywhere in the field that I want.
> 
> However, there must be a more elegant way to reset the status of the 
> "find" command so that it will find text anywhere within the field. 

You can use "find empty" to reset the found location.

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