The Search menu options allow you to search for and replace text strings in the current buffer. Table 12 describes the menu that appears when you choose this option.

Choose this option to search for text within a file. When you choose Search→ Find, the Find dialog box shown in Figure 11 appears.

Table 13 describes the fields in the Find dialog box.

Choose this option to find the next occurrence of the text for which you most recently searched using the Search→ Find option. This option uses the same search criteria as the Search→ Find option.

Choose this option to find the previous occurrence of the text for which you most recently searched using the Search→ Find option. This option uses the same search criteria as the Search→ Find option.

Choose this option to search for and replace text within the current buffer. This type of search is always in a forward direction.

When you choose this option, the Replace dialog box shown in Figure 12 appears.

Table 14 describes the user-interface elements of the Replace dialog box.

The Find What and Replace With fill‑in fields default to the text and options you entered the last time you executed the option in the current session.

Choose this option to move the insertion point to a specific line number within the current buffer.

When you choose this option, the Goto Line dialog box appears as shown in Figure 13. The Goto Line command lets you enter the line number. It defaults to the line number where the cursor is located in the current buffer. If you enter a number that exceeds the number of lines in the current buffer, OpenEdge moves the cursor to the end of the buffer.