QUERY

The QUERY command, although similar to the FIND command, offers the programmer more choice in how to search. It returns the zero-based index of the first entry matching the search criteria, or an empty string if the search criteria were not matched.

#pos := QUERY [ /i ] [ /t ] [ /m=matchtype ] /- table startentry field querystring

#pos := QUERY /m=find table startentry cepr [ copr cexpr ... ] [ /t ] // works like SET table FIND

matchtype

one of the keywords regular, wildcard, substring, full, and find.

table

the table to search.

startentry

the zero-based index of the entry at with which to start the search.

field

the table field to search.

querystring

the string to search for.

cexpr, copr cexpr

see SET table FIND.

/i

The search will be case insensitive (by default, it is case sensitive).

/t

only tagged table entries will be considered.

/m=regular

querystring will be considered a POSIX regular expression.

/m=wildcard

querystring will be considered an STx wildcard expression (just like FIND).

/m=substring

All characters in querystring will be considered autonomous, i.e. naming themselves. The FIND command will find the first entry of which querystring is a substring.

/m=full

All characters in querystring will be considered autonomous, i.e. naming themselves. The FIND command will find the first entry whose content is exactly identical to querystring (with the possible exception of case).

/-

You should always use the /- "non-option" option before the first argument in order not to cause arguments to be mistaken for options.