Searches the current buffer for the specified string and positions the cursor at that string. Format SEARCH search-string
1 – Qualifiers
1.1 /DIALOG
/DIALOG /NODIALOG (D) Instructs LSE to use a dialog box to prompt the user for parameters and qualifier values. The command parameters are optional if you specify this qualifier. If you supply command parameters and qualifiers with the /DIALOG qualifier, these parameters and qualifiers are used to set the initial state of the dialog box. LSE ignores the /DIALOG qualifier if you are using a character- cell terminal.
1.2 /PATTERN
/PATTERN /NOPATTERN (D) Enables or disables special interpretation of wildcard patterns in a search string. Use the SET SEARCH command to specify the style of wildcard patterns (VMS, ULTRIX or TPU). For details of the pattern styles use the command HELP FEATURES PATTERNS. When you specify the /NOPATTERN qualifier (or when it is the default), special interpretation of wildcard patterns in the search string is disabled.
2 – Parameter
search-string Specifies a quoted string indicating the string to search for. If the TPU pattern style is being used the search-string is a TPU expression which must evaluate to a TPU pattern (for example: "'abc' | 'def'"). If you are using the DECwindows interface and specify the /DIALOG qualifier, the search string field in the Find dialog box takes the default value from the the previous search string, if any.