Using character strings

A character string, which may be used as a string operand in a FIND command, requires that the search be satisfied by an exact character-by-character match. Lowercase alphabetic characters match only with lowercase alphabetic characters and uppercase alphabetic characters match only with uppercase.

If you specify a text string that contains any SO or SI characters, the string is considered a character string.

Specifying the keyword UTF8, ASCII, or USASCII with this form of the FIND command will find occurrences of 'string' within the data being browsed, where 'string' has been stored in the corresponding CCSID format.

Here are some examples:

To find the next occurrence of the characters XYZ only if they are in uppercase:

FIND C'XYZ'

To find the next occurrence of the characters xyz only if they are in lowercase:

FIND C'xyz'

To find the next occurrence of the UTF-8 string 'Found' (but not 'FOUND', 'found', or 'FoUnD'):

FIND  C'Found' UTF8