Posted by
ViAnn Beadle on
Feb 21, 2012; 3:39pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Search-Replace-in-SPSS-20-tp5502036p5502592.html
Here's what I just tried:
I selected a line that had two instances of "region".
I opened the S&R dialog.
I turned on the within selection radio button.
I specified region as the search string and region1 as the replacement
string.
I hit the replace all command button and got a message box that two
instances had been changed and asked to search again.
I dismissed it.
It does turn off the selection.
This whole S&R user interface was essentially copied from Word and Notepad.
In retrospect, an IDE approach where all found search strings are displayed
in a secondary window might have been a better approach but then some might
not like that either.
-----Original Message-----
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Matt Kretschmer
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 8:18 AM
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Subject: Re: Search + Replace in SPSS 20
Sure:
Search+Replacement works perfectly if I don't change the default settings.
However, at times I only need to change things in certain areas of my syntax
file, for example I have the following syntax (highly simplified).
Fre v1a v1b v1c.
Cro v1a by v1b.
I now want to have the following syntax:
Fre v2a v2b v2c.
Cro v1a by v1b.
The way to do would be to highlight the first row, hit Ctrol+H, say Replace
v1 with v2 *in selected area* and then replace all.
SPSS then tells me that it can't find search string and automatically
unselects the highlighted area (an annoying feature if I need to make more
than one change in the highlighted area).
If I then click on Replace All (no area highlighted, it will replace v1 with
v2 *in the complete syntax file*. So it CAN find the string but somehow
highlighting it doesn't work for SPSS
Matt
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