Wildcard Search.. Rslogix500,5,5000

[TechJunki 0]

Anyone know of a way to do a wild card search for description text in Logix 5, 500, or 5000?? I know that * and ? are used for wildcard searches for bit and file addressing but I am looking for a way to wildcard bit and file descriptions. (Some Programmers are really bad spellers!) According to the help there is no way to do this but I thought I would ask on the fourm, possibly there are some tips that will arise from it... Thanks

[jstolaruk 9]

IIRC, descriptors in RSL5000 can be searched for by changing the options in the search dialog, but I don't believe I've seen it in RSL5 or RSL500. You can, however, export everything to ASCII and open the <filename>.EAS in a text editor or Excel and get a list of all of the descriptors there.