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Changing Data Directly

In this lesson you will learn how you can change data that already exists.

Please, enter the command

as in the previous lesson. exafil1 is the file you created in the lesson How to Create a File. Now the window should look the same way it did in the previous lesson.

The changes you might like to do could be, e.g., to replace `first' by `1st' and `three' by `3'. To do this you only have to move the cursor with the arrow keys to the correct position in the data zone and simply overwrite the data there. When you overwrite the word `first' with `1st', you have some characters left. You can delete them with the Del key (compare section Keys to Delete and Insert Characters). If you had to insert one or more characters, you would use the Ins key.

If you want the changes to reach the workfile, you have to hit the return key. But if it suddenly occurs to you that you actually do not like these changes, you can press the Pos 1 (or Home) key instead of the return key. The result of this is the state before you started making changes.

After you have pressed the return key, you have no chance to undo your changes at once. Of course, you can do without saving your workfile but in this case you lose any other changes you might have done previously in your exaEdit session.


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