‘Edit’ ‘Find’

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With this command you search for a certain text passage in the current editor window. The Find dialog box opens. It remains opens until the button Cancel is pressed.

In the field ‘Find what’ you can enter the series of characters you are looking for.

In addition, you can decide whether the text you are looking for ‘Match whole word only’ or not, or also whether ‘Match case’ is to be considered, and whether the search should proceed ‘Up’ or ‘Down’ starting from the current cursor position.

The button ‘Find next’ starts the search which begins at the selected position and continues in the chosen search direction. If the text passages is found, then it is highlighted. If the passage is not found, then a message announces this. The search can be repeated several times in succession until the beginning or the end of the contents of the editor window has been reached. In the CFC editor the geometrical order of the elements will be regarded, the search will run from the left upper corner of the window to the right upper corner. Please regard that FBD POUs are processed from the right to the left!

Find dialog box: