Replace dialog box parameters

Description

Specify what to search for. Enter a new string or select a previously-searched string from the pull-down list. When the

Find

dialog box opens, this field contains either the selected text, or the text on which the caret is located.

The list of previously-searched stings is the same list that appears in the

History

list on the standard toolbar. Searched-for items are added to the top of the previously-searched string list.

Tip:

To search for an instruction, type the instruction's mnemonic (for example, ADD). To search for a rung edit zone, enter the ^ character (for example, ^r indicates a search for a pending edit replace).

Click the ... button (), located to the right of the

Find What

field, to display the

Search Item Browser

dialog, and choose an item to search for. The ... button is only enabled when

Limit To

is set to

Text Only

,

References to Exact Tag and Its Members

, or

References to Tag

.

Choose an option from this menu to configure what the

Find What

field represents.

Tip:

This option is not available when searching within the Tag Editor/Data Monitor.

Specify what to replace the

Find What

string with. Enter a new string or choose a previously-used string from the pull-down list.

To specify an instruction, type the instruction’s mnemonic.

Tip:

Cannot replace logic, tags or comments while online. It is possible to rename a program while online.

Click the button located to the right of the

Replace With

field to display the

Search Item Browser

dialog, and choose an item to use as a replacement.

Select the range in which the search will be performed. When the scope to search spans multiple routines or tag listings, the order in which components are searched is the order in which they are displayed in the active organizer. The available options depend on which searchable window is active.

Select this option to wrap the search back to the beginning, once the end of the current scope is reached. When enabled,

Find

automatically wraps to the beginning. This option is selected by default.

Select this option to instruct the search to only find complete words. This includes underscore characters, all punctuation marks, and any printable character that is not valid in a tag name.

This option is always selected with

Use Wildcards

.

Select this option to enable the use of wildcard characters in the

Find What

and

Replace With

fields. When selected, use an asterisk ("*") to substitute for zero or more characters. This function is available only when

Find Where

is set to

All Programs

,

All Programs in Current Task

, or

All Programs in Current Program

.

Multiple wildcard characters are permitted, but consecutive wildcard characters ("**") are not permitted in the

Find What

field. They are allowed in the

Replace With

field.

In the

Replace With

field, a wildcard character substitutes for any text matching the corresponding wildcard character in the

Find What

field as part of the find operation. The

Replace With

field must contain the same number or fewer wildcard characters than the

Find What

field. If the

Replace With

field contains fewer wildcard characters than the

Find What

field, the text matching the last unmatched wildcards is discarded.

Select

Up

or

Down

to specify the direction to search, relative to the current position within the active searchable window.

The direction of the search can extend across multiple routines or tag collections; the search order mirrors the order of the items in the active organizer. The default direction is

Down

.

This area indicates where the

Logix Designer

application will search. Commas separate each search location. Click

Find Within

to expand this section of the dialog box and display options specific to each type of search component.

Click this button to activate the search.

Click this button to find every occurrence of the specified string in the

Find What

field. The results of the search are written to the

Search Results

tab of the

Output

window. Click a search result to navigate to that location.

Click this button to find the first occurrence of the string specified in the

Find What

field. If nothing is found to replace, a message appears to indicate that nothing was found.

Clicking this button when an occurrence of the specified string is selected replaces the selected item with the string in the

Replace With

field.

Click this button to replace every occurrence of the

Find What

string with the

Replace With

string.

The results of the

Replace All

action are written to the

Search Results

tab of the

Output

window.