On Sat, 2 Aug 2014 21:21:08 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>What does repeat FIND do once you're at the end of the file? > >I just noticed this: > > If you do not specify any operands, the operands you specified > last with FIND are used. The search for the specified string > begins at the line following the current line. If you issue the > TOP subcommand, the search for the specified string begins with > the second line of the data set. > >Second? Boo! > Slavish adherence to specifications. Probably:
o Repeat Find makes current the next line after the current whch contains the target. o TOP makes the first line current. You're already there. Searching the current line and going there again would be a no-op. (I once knew a college dormitory elevator which, if one pressed the button for the current floor and hopped out before the door closed, became catatonic, requiring a service call. Similar phenomenon.) >Too bad that TSO EDIT is functionally stabilized. > But ISPF edit behaves better. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
