From: "George J. De Bruin" 
> The following macro will do that, but it also works with the menu Find,
> although you would have to do a lot of repeated typing then.
Hi Carlo,
Looks like I forgot to CC my response to Dave's original message to the 
mailing list...  You and I think a lot alike.   Here's a copy of 
my message...
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> I'm stumped on one.  How can I use compressed view to return line
> numbers and their length for all lines in the file longer than 80
> characters?  I haven't been able to figure out how to use find and a
> regular expression to return a compressed view of lines longer than 80
> characters, and if I could, I'm not sure how I'd get the length into
> the compressed view.
Believe it or not, this one took me a minute...  But, then it
dawned on me... Regular expressions!  You have the "." operator which
matches 1 character -- use 80 of them with a '#' operator to make sure
there is 1 or more characters following them.
Now, with a couple of minutes of coding I came up with the following:
proc FindLong()
    lFind(format("":80:".")+"#","ixvg")
end
 FindLong()
Which can be modfifed (generalized) to find all lines in a file over a
specified length by making a small modification:
proc FindLongLines()
    string sFndLength[3] = "80"
 // Note: the following if statement got wrapped -- unwrap it before 
 // compiling
    if Ask("Find strings longer than:", sFndLength) and Val(sFndLength)
    < 254        	
 lFind(format("":Val(sFndLength):".")+"#","ixvg")
    else
        Warn("Max allowed value is: 254")
    endif
end
 FindLongLines()
Anyway, I think you get the idea...  You can modify the options to your
desiring, or even add a prompt for them.  You could also make the
sFndLenght variable a parameter to the function so you can call it from
other macros if you want...  Hopefully this gets you started.
> All ideas and suggestions will be gratefully accepted!  Thanks in
> advance.
Well, I hope this one will do it for you...  Kinda a messy way to do it,
but at least I didn't have to type 80 periods. 
// George
// Former SemWare Support
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