Find the exact string match in ISPF Search

Rehana · New User Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 13 Location: chennai

Hi,
I like to find the exact string match.

For example,

list
clist

in the above words, if i search of list( f list) i will get both the occurrence.

But i need the exact matching(only the list)
Can u pls help me out

expat · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:50 pm

F ' LIST' or F 'LIST ' or F ' LIST '

Take your pick.

Rehana · New User Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 13 Location: chennai

hi,

It is not working. I will explain the problem with another example.

LIST.TEST.TEST1
LIST.TEST.TEST2
LIST.TEST

If i apply find for 'LIST.TEST', i will get all the above occurences, since that string is present as a substring.

But i need only to find 'LIST.TEST' from the above.
Hope i am clear.

expat · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:09 pm

F 'LIST.TEST '

Rehana · New User Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 13 Location: chennai

thank you

ofer71 · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:53 am

The FIND command has some opernads to help you refine your search. One of the operand is WORD, which looks for the requested string only when it appears as a word. For more information, please refer to the fine manual.

O.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:09 pm

what about reading a little bit of ISPF docs, or just take some time to press pf1 ( which means HELP ) and navigate the ISPF TUTORIALS ?!?
anyway if You had done that You would have found that the find command has some modifiers useful to find exactly what You need
--- WORD
--- PREFIX
--- SUFFIX
and to conclude, the command You should issue is
f list word

regards

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

Hi Rehana,

What I usually do is follow the find with "x all test.t"