HP Search/XL User's Guide

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[A-Z]BUF Any one capital letter followed by "BUF".

[A-Z]\(@\); Any string starting with an uppercase alphabetic character followed by an open parenthe-

sis, any number of characters, and a close parenthesis. The entire string must be termi-

nated with a semicolon.

BUF+ Any string that begins with "BU", followed by one or more occurrences of "F".

BUF* The character string "BU" followed by zero or more occurrences of "F".

???_BUF# Any three characters followed by the string "_BUF" followed by any one digit.

\@\?\\ The string "@?\".

‘pic x\(15\)' The character string pic followed by asingleblank,thecharacterx,a left parenthesis, the

number 15, then a right parenthesis. Literally, the string pic x(15). The single quotes

around the pattern are required because of the embedded blank. They are only needed

when entering the pattern in the INFO string.

Characters with Special Meaning in MPE XL

When specifying patterns on the command line, there are three characters that you cannot use:

exclamation point (!), single quotation mark ('), and double quotation mark ("). Because these characters

have special meaning in the MPE XL operating system, you must use the sequences shown in Table 3-2 if

you want to include them in a pattern speciﬁcation.

You should note that you only have to use the above sequences when specifying these characters on the HP

Search command lines; use the sequence or the character itself in an indirect pattern ﬁle or at the pattern

prompt.

Specifying Unprintable Characters in a Pattern

On occasion, you may want to search for a pattern that contains an unprintable character. For example,

you could use HP Search to ﬁnd a pattern containing the Escape character, ESC. To match an unprintable

character, type a percent sign (%) followed by the octal ASCII value of the character you want in your

pattern. Valid ranges for a character are the octal values 1 through 377. For instance, %33 should be used

to specify the escape character. To specify an unprintable character followed by a digit, type a backslash

before the digit. For example, to specify the pattern "ESC6" type %33\6 in the pattern parameter.

Option Parameters

You may specify options on the command line which affect the way HP Search looks for patterns, the

format of its output, and the destination of this output. Any parameters listed in the HP Search command

line after WITH are treated as option speciﬁers.

Option parameters may be speciﬁed in any order but must be delimited with blank spaces or commas.

Table 2: Characters with Special MPE XL Meaning

Desired Character

Sequence Needed to Specify Character in the HP

Search Command Line

Exclamation Point, ! %x or %X

Single Quotation Mark, ' %s or %S

Double Quotation Mark, " %d or %D