Edit User's Guide and Reference Manual

Column-Range Parameter

Range Summary

058061 Tandem Computers Incorporated 5–29

2. The command:

*LIST "seven" COL 15:22

7 I met a man with seven wives

8 Each wife had seven sacks

9 Each sack had seven cats

lists all lines that contain the string seven between columns 18 and 22.

3. The command:

*CHANGE 15:19 "thirteen" 8/9

8 Each wife had thirteen sack

9 Each sack had thirteen cats

Note that EDIT accepts

a longer string here.

changes the characters in columns 15 through 19 of lines 8 and 9 to the

string thirteen.