HP System Dictionary/XL SDMAIN Reference Manual (32256-90001)

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EDIT ENTITY
Edits an entity's variable length attribute text.
Syntax
ED[IT] E[NTITY] entity-name
;E[NTITY-]T[YPE] = entity-type-name
;A[TTRIBUTE] = attribute-name
.
Parameters
entity-name Name of the entity whose variable length attribute text is to be edited.
entity-type-name Name of the type of the entity.
attribute-name Name of the variable length attribute whose text is to be edited.
Description
You cannot use the EDIT ENTITY command if input is from a file or you are executing in batch mode. The
EDIT command calls the EDIT/V subsystem, which performs the specified editing. (Refer to the EDIT/V
Reference Manual for details regarding this subsystem.) EDTXTxxx is the name of the temporary text file
used as the interface between the System Dictionary and EDIT/V. To perform the editing tasks, you may
use all but the following two EDIT/V subsystem commands: TEXT and KEEP. You cannot use the TEXT
command because EDTXTxxx is automatically used as the text file when entering the EDIT command.
You may not use the KEEP command for the same reason. When exiting the EDIT/V subsystem, you are
prompted with "PURGE OLD?". If you respond "Yes" or "Y", an automatic KEEP is issued. Otherwise, the
original text remains unchanged and the new text is not kept. If you delete all lines, the variable length
attribute is deleted from the entity.
Open Mode: Shared-update or exclusive-update
Scope: DA scope or any scope with create capability and modify access to the entity
Example
The following example adds the line "The records in the file are fixed length 80-byte records with 3 fields: a
customer ID, a part number, and a quantity ordered." to the description text of entity orders.
>EDIT ENTITY orders;
>>ENTITY-TYPE = file;
>>ATTRIBUTE = description.
HP32201A.7.16 EDIT/3000 WED, NOVEMBER 13, 1985, 4:34 PM
(C) HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. 1984
/L ALL
1 This file contains all of the information
2 available for an order.
/ADD