Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Sequential number file
The Subroutines process of Format Control creates a Sequential Number File record when the application getnumb.fc is called. The parameters passed to the application from within Subroutines define the values in the number file fields. These values determine how the sequential number opens and what other information it contains. You can define number file values either directly in the number file or via parameters passed from Format Control. However, if you use the number file to change values also defined in the Format Control subroutines process, they are overridden by the Format Control values.
Related topics
Access the sequential number file
Create a simple number counter
Use decrement in sequential numbers
Use prefix and suffix in sequential numbers
Update a sequential number record
Delete a sequential number record
