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- 15.3 CHANGE ATTRIBUTE
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- The CHANGE ATTRIBUTE command is used to substitute one attribute for another
- on a group of selected entities or the whole database. The search key
- attribute can be entered as just an attribute name, or an attribute name and
- specific value.
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- COMMAND SYNTAX
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- #CHANGE ATTRIBUTE FROM modifiers TO modifiers :Ent x1 .. xn
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- #CHANGE ATTRIBUTE FROM modifiers TO modifiers [CR]
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- The specified attribute substitution will take place on all selected
- entities that have the required search key attribute.
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- MODIFIERS
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- FROM This modifier is used to access the next four modifiers
- used to enter the search key for the substitution as an
- attribute.
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- .ATTRIBUTE The name of the search key attribute. If no data values are
- entered after this attribute name, any entity with an
- occurance of this attribute regardless of any data values
- will be processed by the command.
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- ..TEXT Used to enter a text data value for the search key attribute.
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- ..INTEGER Used to enter an integer data value or list of values for
- the search key attribute.
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- ..REAL Used to enter a real data value or list of values for the
- search key attribute.
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- TO The TO modifier is used to access the next four modifiers
- used to enter the replacement attribute and associated data
- values for any entity processed by the command.
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- .ATTRIBUTE The name of the replacement attribute. If the attribute is
- of type TEXT, INTEGER or REAL, a data value or values must
- be entered.
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- ..TEXT Used to enter a text value for the replacement attribute.
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- ..INTEGER Used to enter an integer value or list of values for the
- replacement attribute.
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- ..REAL Used to enter a real value or list of values for the
- replacement attribute.
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