VISTA Plus for MPE User's Guide

Chapter 5
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Extracting Records
This section gives instructions on extracting records from a report.
1. From the View window’s primary set of function keys, press F7, Next Keys.
2. Press F6, Extract Records. The function keys change and the Extract Lines window
is displayed.
3. To enter the first string to be extracted with its line(s), press Enter. You are prompted for the
string (up to 40 characters).
4. Enter the string, and press Enter You are prompted at Ext. The Ext field accepts a numeric
value that defines the number of lines to extract when the search string is located.
5. You can define the data to extract using any of the following methods:
• To extract just the line containing the string, keep the value at zero (0), and press Enter.
• To extract the line containing the string plus the next n lines, enter n, and press Enter.
• To extract the line containing the string and the preceding n lines, enter -n, and
press Enter.
• To extract the entire page, enter 100, and press Enter.
You are prompted at Col. The Col field defines the column from which the search will begin.