VISTA Plus for MPE User's Guide

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CHAPTER 4
Searching a Report
VISTA provides fast searching for specific values or strings within a report. In addition to allowing
you to search forward, by columns, by window, or for the last occurrence of a value, VISTA offers
several other search capabilities which will be discussed in this chapter. This chapter also provides
information on indices. Indexing is important in relation to searching.
VISTA offers the following search features:
• Search for all occurrences by entering the string you want to find followed by //.
• Search for multiple text strings by entering the string followed by an ampersand (&). Continue
to link items together with an ampersand until the group you want is defined.
• Search for a range of text by specifying From and To values separated by a bar (|). In addition
to specifying the range, you can also specify the columns to which the search will be limited.
• Search for a numeric range by entering the first number, followed by a plus sign (+), and then
enter the last number you seek. In addition to specifying the range, you can also specify the
columns to which the search will be limited.
• Search for values greater than a specific number by entering the greater than sign (>)
followed by the number. The number can be positive or negative.
• Search for values less than a specific number by entering the less than sign (<) followed by the
number. The number can be positive or negative.
The sections in this chapter include:
• Indexing a Report
• Search Index Management
• Extracting Search Information