Two terms are used to describe the actions that you take
when highlighting data in the Data Source area.
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Swipe. This action involves highlighting data
by clicking your mouse button, dragging it across the desired data, and
releasing the mouse button. The behavior of swiping text depends on the
current section format. For the General Text format,
swiping across several columns selects exactly those characters (e.g.,
fixed column, fixed length). Swiping down selects multiple whole lines.
For the Vector format, a swipe selects multiple
elements of the vector. For the Table format,
a swipe may select all or part of a row, a column, or a sub-table.
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Click. This action involves placing your mouse
cursor on a particular location in the Data Source
area and clicking the mouse button a number of times (single-clicking,
double-clicking, and triple-clicking). For the General Text
format, a single click selects the current word or item, a double-click
selects the current word, and a triple-click selects the whole line.
For all other formats, a click selects the current item and double and
triple-clicks have no additional effect.
Note:
For the General Text format, selecting a
word with a click and selecting characters with a swipe result in different
behaviors. When a word is selected, the data will be located at run time
by counting the number of words from the beginning of the line (no matter
the length of the words). When characters are selected, the characters
at exactly those positions on the line are used—if something earlier
on the line became longer, the data will no longer fit within the swipe.
It is not recommended that you swipe characters of text except when reading
or writing data to be processed by a Fortran formatted read or write
action. Swiping all the characters of a word is the same as clicking
on the word. Swiping part of a word or the text of more than one word,
selects a range of characters. The Swipe Details
area shows you if the data were selected by a word or by characters.
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