VISTA Plus for MPE User's Guide

Extracting Records
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6. You can define the search column as follows:
• To search the entire line, keep this value at zero (0), and press Enter. You are prompted at
Len. The Len field defines the number of columns to search. Continue with step 7.
• To limit your search to a only a portion of the line, you can define the columns to search
as follows:
a) Press F3, Extract By Cols.
b) Place the cursor on the first column to be searched, and press Enter.
c) Place the cursor on the last column to be searched, and press Enter. VISTA loads the
values into the Col(umn) and Len(gth) fields. You are prompted at the next Search
field. Please continue from step 8.
7. To search the entire line, keep this value at zero (0) and press Enter. You are prompted at the
next Search field.
8. If you want to search for other strings, repeat Steps 3 through 7.
9. To limit the pages from which data is extracted, edit the From Page and To Page fields. To
edit them, press Enter until you are prompted for them. Enter the new values, and press Enter.
10. To extract headings with this data, edit the Extract Headings To field. (When it is set to zero
(0), no headings are extracted.) If you want to extract lines 4 through 6 as heading lines,
modify both the Extract Headings From and To fields. Specified headings only appear on the
first page of the report.
11. To save this extract criteria for subsequent uses, press F4, Save Rules. You are prompted for a
description of the criteria. Enter a description for this set of extract criteria, and press Enter.
12. Once this window displays the desired criteria, press F6, Execute Extract. VISTA creates a
temporary file with the lines you requested. At this point, you can print, download, or save this
data to a new VISTA report.
13. To exit the extracted version and return to the whole report, press F8, Exit Sub Rept.