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Additional to the well known <B>/</B> and <B>?</B> for searching ASCII
strings there are two new commands for searching binary strings. These
are the keys <B>\</B> and <B>#</B>.
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In the ASCII search commands <B>/</B> and <B>?</B> you can use \n, \r,
\t and \0. You can also use regular expressions. Do <I>not</I> use
<B>^</B> and <B>$</B>, because there are no lines in a binary file.
Type <B><TT>/foo\0</TT><FONT COLOR=#AAAAAA>RETURN</FONT></B> to
search for the null terminated string <I>foo</I> in the file.
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In the Hex section you can search for a sequence of bytes in hexadecimal
notation, e.g. <NOBR><B><TT>\01 AF 12</TT><FONT COLOR=#AAAAAA>RETURN</FONT></B>,
</NOBR> which is the same as <NOBR><B><TT>\01AF12</TT><FONT COLOR=#AAAAAA>
RETURN</FONT></B></NOBR>.
You can also use regular expressions and quoted ASCII strings. Inside of
the quotes no character is treated as a special character!<BR>
Example: &nbsp;
<B><TT>\01 [^AF DE] "foo" 00 </TT><FONT COLOR=#AAAAAA>RETURN</FONT></B>
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This means: Search for a string beginning with 01, the second character
must not be a hex <TT>AF</TT> or <TT>DE</TT>, followed by the ASCII
characters <TT>foo</TT>, terminated with a binary zero.
<H3>Global Search</H3>
There is also a global search option available, but only with the
print option.<BR>
Example:
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<B><TT>:g/text_pattern/p</TT><FONT COLOR=#AAAAAA>RETURN</FONT></B>
<BR>or<BR>
<B><TT>:g\hex_pattern\p</TT><FONT COLOR=#AAAAAA>RETURN</FONT></B>
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This commands are displaying all found patterns, one per screen line.
Of course you can limit the search to a certain part of the file by
specifying the starting and ending address.<BR>
Other forms of the global search command
are line oriented, therefor <B>not</B> useful for binary files and
<B>not implemented</B>, e.g.<BR>
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<TR><TD>:g/pattern/d</TD><TD>Delete all lines containing <I>pattern</I></TD></TR>
<TR><TD>:g/pattern/y</TD><TD>Yank all lines containing <I>pattern</I></TD></TR>
<TR><TD>:g!/pattern/p</TD><TD>Print all lines <B>not</B> containing <I>pattern</I></TD></TR>
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<i>Last update: Thu Jun 01 12:00:00 CEST 2000 by Gerhard B&uuml;rgmann</i>
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