Slick V3.3 manual Find and Replace Commands, Option Description, =SlickEdit-regular-expression

	Find and Replace Commands
Option		Description
R		Interpret search string as a SlickEdit® regular ex-
		pression.
U		Interpret search string as UNIX regular expression.
B		Interpret string as a Brief regular expression.
N		Do not interpret search string as a regular expres-
		sion.
P		Wrap to beginning/end when string not found.
W		Limit search to words. Used to search for variables.
W=SlickEdit-regular-expression		Specifies the valid characters in a word. The default
		value is [A-Za-z0-9_$]. To change the word charac-
		ters for a specific extension, from the main menu
		click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit
		and click General in the tree, then double-click the
		File Extension Setup setting. Select your exten-
		sion from the Extension drop-down list, then select
		the Advanced Tab.
W:P		Limit search to word prefix. For example, a search
		for “pre” matches “pre” and “prefix” but not
		“supreme” or “supre”.
W:PS		Limit search to strict word prefix. For example, a
		search for “pre” matches “prefix” but not “pre,”
		“supreme” or “supre”.
W:S		Limit search to word suffix. For example, a search
		for “fix” matches “fix” and “suffix” but not “fixit”.
W:SS		Limit search to strict word suffix. For example, a
		search for “fix” matches “suffix” but not “fix” or “fixit”.
H		Allow finding search string in hidden lines.
Y		Binary search. This allows start positions in the
		middle of a DBCS or UTF-8 character. This option
		is useful when editing binary files (in SBCS/DBCS
		mode) which may contain characters which look like
		DBCS but are not. For example, if you search for
		the character “a”, it will not be found as the second

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